I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn't start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
I read, I painted, I didn't hate niggers.
My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.
I want a bigger band with higher highs, a bigger ladder. And I want more bottom - I want an incredible amount of bottom. I want more noise. When I do a rock tune I want it to be so HUGE.
