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've heard some tunes in recent years that were pretty close to that same idea. The idea was you turn on the radio and you want to hear some music and up comes a commercial.

I'm happy whenever anybody does my material. I don't care what they do with it. I do what I want to with other people's songs.

I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express.

The idea was I'd never amount to anything in music, The theme there was that I was talented, but I wouldn't work hard enough to do anything with it.

So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts.

I'm playin' music for a certain type of person. Fortunately, there are more and more of us. At least there are more comin' to see me than there were 30 years ago or so.