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

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.

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

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 up one Christmas morning and we didn't have nothing to eat. We didn't have an apple, we didn't have an orange, we didn't have a cake, we didn't have nothing.

Ain't nobody's business, if I bark like a dog.

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