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.

Robert Johnson? No, I didn't know him, personally.

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

Going to Chicago was like going out of the world.

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.

I got that first record out, it came out in '47... Then my name began to ring around. I began to take over. From that point, I tell you, Chicago was in my hand, all the more time that those guys had to listen to me.

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