I was messing around with the harmonica... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.

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.

If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket.

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

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

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.

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