I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.

I got your strand of hair, I kiss it day and night.

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

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

I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.

That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.

There was a time when I had the blues - I mean I really had it bad. I couldn't pay my light bill and I couldn't pay my rent and I really had the blues. But today I can pay my rent and I can pay the light bill and I still got the blues. So I must been born with 'em... That's my religion - the blues is my religion.