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

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.

The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.

I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.

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

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