I went to school, but they didn't give you too much schooling because just as soon as you was big enough, you get to working in the fields. I guess I was a big boy for my age.
People should hear the pure blues - the # blues we used to have when we had no money.
He took my music, but he gave me my name.
Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that VOICE and it was my own VOICE.
The thing about San Francisco is that it has this kind of magical quality.
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.