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.

I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.

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

He took my music, but he gave me my name.

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

Going to Chicago was like going out of the world.

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