Ron Thompson, he's my main man!

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

Poor people have the blues because they're poor and hungry. Rich people can't sleep at night because they're trying to hold on to their money and everything they have.

I hitchhiked, took trucks 'n' trains - anything that would pick me up. I stopped in Memphis for about six months and they found me and come got me. Stayed about a month an' split again.

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.

The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.

I just get an idea and then all of a sudden I've got a song.