My style is all to myself.
I do benefits. I do them all the time. There's so many people out there that needs help that I can't say I won't help them.
I like dropping into a small club and playing with some people, trying to help them get a start.
I am a happy man. I've had a good life.
Ron Thompson, he's my main man!
I've got enough money to live me two lifetimes so I don't have to do nothing I don't want to.
The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.
I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.
That girl has a special talent
Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight.
They wasn't gonna give you nothin'. I didn't care as long as they let me play my music. Cash on the spot... You cheat me and I'm gonna get me some money, too.
But I don't want to do no big tours or go out on the road.
I been doing the same things as in my younger days, when I was coming up, and now here I am, an old man, up there in the charts. And I say, well, what happened? Have they just thought up the real John Lee Hooker, is that it? And I think, well, I won't tell nobody else! I can't help but wonder what happened.
Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em.
