Quotes

About 15 times, a lady has said, "It's either me or Lucille [his guitar]". That's why I've had 15 children by 15 women.

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

[asked what he would do differently, could he live his life over] I would have finished high school.

Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.

[on which musicians will keep the blues alive in a June 2006 interview] I could name so many that I think that you won't miss me at all when I'm not around. You'll maybe miss seeing my face, but the music will go on.