My grandmother, she say I shouldn't be playing. I should go to church. Fially, I say I'm going do this, I'm going do it. And she got where she didn't bother me about it.

All the kids made their own git-tars. Made mine out of a box and bit of stick for a neck. Couldn't do much with it, but that's how you learn.

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

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

I went down to my baby's house and I sit down on her steps. She said, now come on in now, you know, my husband just left.

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

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.