I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin' stone.

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'.

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

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.

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

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

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