He took my music, but he gave me my name.

People should hear the pure blues - the #‎ blues we used to have when we had no money.

My grandmother, she say I shouldn't be playing. I should go to church. Fially, I say I'm going do this, I'm going do it. And she got where she didn't bother me about it.

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.

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

I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi.

I was messing around with the harmonica... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.