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'.

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

If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket.

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

My blues are so simple, but so few people can play it right

I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi.

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.