I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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.
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.
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