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.

Going to Chicago was like going out of the world.

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

My blues are so simple, but so few people can play it right

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

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

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