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

I am a happy man. I've had a good life.

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.

They wasn't gonna give you nothin'. I didn't care as long as they let me play my music. Cash on the spot... You cheat me and I'm gonna get me some money, too.

I don't like no fancy chords. Just the boogie. The drive. The feeling. A lot of people play fancy but they don't have no style. It's a deep feeling-you just can't stop listening to that sad blues sound. My sound.

I don't do nothing I don't want to do.