I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.

I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.

All my life I've been prejudiced against wealthy people.

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

All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.

Saturday night is your big night. Everybody used to fry up fish and have one hell of a time. Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. And be glad of it. And they really liked the low-down blues.