You got to get it while you can.

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that's what I sounded like. You can't make up something that you don't feel. I didn't make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

I started singing rhythmically, and now I'm learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it

What we've had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we're doing - the music.