Rock is my child and my grandfather.

My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.

Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.

Rock 'n' roll accepted me and paid me, even though I loved the big bands I went that way because I wanted a home of my own. I had a family. I had to raise them. Let's don't leave out the economics. No way.

Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don't know how mean she looks.

He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.

Rock is my child and my grandfather.