I don't sit here and dream because I don't care about the future. I wouldn't take nothin' for my past and I've got enough behind me that I can write forever.

That's what I liked about hitch-hiking. If a crowd wasn't big enough, I kept walkin.'

Long made it possible for me to get on records, so what little money he did take from me, if any at all, he was entitled to it. He didn't take something from me.

Anywhere I'm wanted, I'll go. I've got to be wanted, though.

When I was hitch-hiking, people had to follow me, 'cause I didn't stay long.

I got Sonny up to Harlem, and we started street playin' in New York. We did that for three or four years and survived. We brought it back to the streets again.