I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was a radio station that come on everyday with country, spirituals, and the blues.

Oh, I was working occasionally in and out of New York.

Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right.

A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.

I used to just sign papers and not pay no attention to what I'm signing.

Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.

I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.