I really turned into, you know, the real street kid. I was kind of like a runaway, but I had a mother, you know what I mean, and I had a place to stay.
The two things you can't fake are good food and good music
I'm not a bourgeois person, never will be.
When I'm singing the blues, I'm singing life.
I like to shop, but I don't like to go out to dances.
And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve.