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

I went to school, but they didn't give you too much schooling because just as soon as you was big enough, you get to working in the fields. I guess I was a big boy for my age.

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

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.

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

Saturday night is your big night. Everybody used to fry up fish and have one hell of a time. Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. And be glad of it. And they really liked the low-down blues.

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