My style is all to myself.

I do benefits. I do them all the time. There's so many people out there that needs help that I can't say I won't help them.

I never build myself us. I let the people do that. I'm the most laid-back person, and I let them build me up. If you ask me, I say, 'I''m just a guy playin' some blues.

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.

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 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.

All my life I been doin' what people tell me to do. Now, I'm telling them.