The jazz and blues clubs are like the jazz and blues musicians - they're disappearing.

I said, I'm going to stand up and somebody is going to pay attention to me.

Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.

I didn't look up and say, "Oh, man, if I learn how to play a guitar I could make not much money, but I'd make a decent living like Eric Clapton or somebody." There wasn't nothing like that out there.

Even the disc jockeys are saying, if I play your record, I made you. You got to play for me free.

When you catch me playing something at home, it's somebody else's stuff where I can what we call steal licks from, and that's how I taught myself how to play.

Blues is like American Express. I don't leave home without it.