The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.

I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.

I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.

I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew then, same as I know today, that I wasn't doing anything wrong. I think that before they died, they both felt very proud of me.

People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.