It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation.

I don't care who's playing. Even if it's my favorite artist, I'm probably not gonna go and see him.

To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very worldly and good listening.

This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish.

I am so happy that I am alive and can walk.

I'm not a bourgeois person, never will be.

People that can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.