I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all.

I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in Memphis, Tennessee, and I was quite popular there as a disk jockey.

The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.

When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won't know where you are.

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.

I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.