I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi.

Now that I'm gettin' old enough to get some money, I'd like to have some money. I don't get much made, I need to conquer a big chunk of money. Not quit playin' but quit playin' so hard.

Robert Johnson? No, I didn't know him, personally.

Memphis was almost like going to California. Beale Street was the black man's street.

You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can't you hear it in my voice?

I was messing around with the harmonica... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.