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 remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to call me Boom Boom. I don't know why, but he did.

Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight.

I have heartaches, I have blues. No matter what you got, the blues is there. 'Cause that's all I know - the blues. And I can sing the blues so deep until you can have this room full of money and I can give you the blues.

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

I don't think about time. You're here when you're here. I think about today, staying in tune.

I like dropping into a small club and playing with some people, trying to help them get a start.