The blacks have their parties, hustle a little liquor, get some things together, and I used to play for those peoples. They'd come get me on time, but they wouldn't bring me back on time... Done picked cotton all day, play all night long, then pick cotton all day the next day before I could get a chance to sleep.

China is to stock fraud as Silicon Valley is to technology.

Memphis was almost like going to California. Beale Street was the black man's street.

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

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

If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket.

I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin' stone.