I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for?

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

I went down to my baby's house and I sit down on her steps. She said, now come on in now, you know, my husband just left.

I got that first record out, it came out in '47... Then my name began to ring around. I began to take over. From that point, I tell you, Chicago was in my hand, all the more time that those guys had to listen to me.

Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that VOICE and it was my own VOICE.

I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.

Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.