The thing about San Francisco is that it has this kind of magical quality.

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.

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.

The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll.

At night in the country, you'd be surprised how that music carries. You could hear my guitar way before you get to the house, and you could hear the peoples hollerin' and screamin'.