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

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'.

I got your strand of hair, I kiss it day and night.

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.

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

The blacks have their parties, hustle a little liquor, get some things together, and I used to play for those peoples. They'd come get me on time, but they wouldn't bring me back on time... Done picked cotton all day, play all night long, then pick cotton all day the next day before I could get a chance to sleep.