If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.

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've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.

When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'

The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people, I ain't no vampire!