If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back now because the blues is really going.

My style is all to myself.

It don't take me no three days to record no album.

It's never hard to sing the blues. Everyone in the world has the blues . . .

If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back now because the blues is really going.

I've got enough money to live me two lifetimes so I don't have to do nothing I don't want to.

I been doing the same things as in my younger days, when I was coming up, and now here I am, an old man, up there in the charts. And I say, well, what happened? Have they just thought up the real John Lee Hooker, is that it? And I think, well, I won't tell nobody else! I can't help but wonder what happened.