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.

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

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.

Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em.

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 wanna get drunk 'til I'm off my mind. One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer.

I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit.