So I'm In My 51st Year Of

I Haven't Stopped And I Don't Plan On Stoppin' Any Time Soon.

I Sang And Wrote Songs When I Was 12 Years Old.

I Don't Remember Any Impression [from Blues].the Blues Was Just Everywhere In The Mississippi Delta. It Was Mostly Black Sharecroppers Living There, And There Was A Lot Of Blues Around. Sometimes The Guys Would Sing The Blues In The Fields, Working.

I'm Happy Whenever Anybody Does My Material. I Don't Care What They Do With It. I Do What I Want To With Other People's Songs.

I Do Very Few Standards. Hardly Any. Other People's Tunes That I Do Are Usually Obscure Tunes, For The Most Part, Although I Do A Couple Of Duke Ellington Tunes That Are Well Known.