I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.

I still play Strat, I don't know nothing else. Strats and Telecasters.

Stay in school, stay off drugs, don't make the same mistakes I did, respect yourself, and others will follow.

I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.

They used to say it was bad for Indians to drink, but it's bad for anybody. When they drink they lose their cool, a lot of us. Like when we played with Sonny Boy, I would never get paid, you know. He would drink up all the money.

In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize marriages that much, either.

I'm using Fender Twin Reverbs and Fender Blues Devilles on stage.