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 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 was taking chemical engineering. But I went into the army after that. When I came out of the army, I was a different person. I met a lot of good jazz players in the army.

I have no idea what I'm doin'. I've never seen me.

I don't care what anyone does, as long as they go through the copyright office.

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

The thing of playin' and singin' never bothered me.