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.

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

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.

Now that I'm gettin old enough to get some money, I'd like to have some money. I don't get much made, I need to conquer a big chunk of money. Not quit playin but quit playin so hard.

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.

Going to Chicago was like going out of the world.

That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.