You got to get it while you can.
I won't quit to become someone's old lady.
If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
This whole thing that's happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn't yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas, that was to be true to myself, to be the person that I...that was on inside of me and not play games.