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.

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

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

Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich.

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

Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that VOICE and it was my own VOICE.

All the kids made their own git-tars. Made mine out of a box and bit of stick for a neck. Couldn't do much with it, but that's how you learn.