If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you've got something they want to hear.

Prejudice doesn't make me mad. It just - I guess 'pisses me off' is the word.

It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues...It's called rock now.

I have so many entities now as grow older you gain responsibilities, you know, real estate, and I like video, and you know I want to live a little you know, because time is passing, its not as long as it has been.

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

All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.

The gateway to freedom...was somewhere close to New Orleans where most Africans were sorted through and sold. I had driven through New Orleans on tour and I'd been told my great grandfather had lived way back up in the woods among the evergreens in a log cabin. I revived the era with a song about a coloured boy named Johnny B. Goode. My first thought was to make his life follow as my own had come along, but I thought it would seem biased to white fans to say 'coloured boy' and changed it to 'country boy'.