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

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

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

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.

At night in the country, you'd be surprised how that music carries. You could hear my guitar way before you get to the house, and you could hear the peoples hollerin' and screamin'.

Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich.