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

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

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

I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing.

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.

Theres no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, Im playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money.

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