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When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues.

When I was young, I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.

When I got out of high school, I joined a local blues band in Philadelphia - Woody's Truck Stop.

I used to be a great blues singer.

I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.

I think people must wonder how a white girl like me became a blues guitarist. The truth is, I never intended to do this for a living.

When I got out of high school, I was in a blues band. It was the kind of music I was interested in, and listening to, mostly because it was becoming a vehicle for a generation of guitarists - like Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton. Mike Bloomfield. And that's what I wanted to be, principally: a guitar player.

I was always a closet blues player.

My father's nephew was the blues musician, Lowell Fulson. Every time he came around, he had a pretty car, a beautiful woman and a slick sharkskin suit. Believe it or not, that's how I decided I wanted to get into music.

I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz.