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

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.

Theres no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, Im playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money.

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.

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

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

You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can't you hear it in my voice?