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

I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin' stone.

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.

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

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.

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.

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