I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing.

I was so wild and crazy and dumb in my car. It didn't run but 30 miles an hour. You made do.

I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.

Robert Johnson? No, I didn't know him, personally.

Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich.

That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.

You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can't you hear it in my voice?