You always want to write the perfect song. But no one will ever write the perfect song, I guess. I would just like to write on that has all the elements of what I'm tring to do. And I'm working on it. I'm always working on it.

I have lots of CDs that came out at one time or another, and according to the statements I've gotten, no one's buying them.I figured there's no need making a new CD. There are plenty of mine out there, and none of them are selling.

I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.

I don't remember any impression [from blues].The blues was just everywhere in the Mississippi Delta. It was mostly black sharecroppers living there, and there was a lot of blues around. Sometimes the guys would sing the blues in the fields, working.

I never bothered about keeping track.Every now and then someone records one of my songs, and I get credit for it.

I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years.

The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.