When I was hitch-hiking, people had to follow me, 'cause I didn't stay long.

Long made it possible for me to get on records, so what little money he did take from me, if any at all, he was entitled to it. He didn't take something from me.

My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else.

From then on in, me and Sonny started makin' records. My first records, Sonny was backin' me up. Sonny wasn't singin' natural at the time; he was singin' falsetto.

I don't sit here and dream because I don't care about the future. I wouldn't take nothin' for my past and I've got enough behind me that I can write forever.

Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.