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.

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

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

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

Saturday night is your big night. Everybody used to fry up fish and have one hell of a time. Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. And be glad of it. And they really liked the low-down blues.

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'.

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