When I was about 12, I knew I wanted to be a musician. The blues had so much emotion and so much feeling; if you don't have that, you're not going to be good at it.

My mother played piano so we always had music around the house

I think about legacy a lot, hopefully at the end of the day they say I was a good bluesman. That's all I want.

The blues was so big in the late '60s that it kinda wore itself out, and people weren't diggin' the blues as much.

I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself.

When I started workin' with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin' the blues.

When I was about 12, I knew I wanted to be a musician. The blues had so much emotion and so much feeling; if you don't have that, you're not going to be good at it.