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.

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'm a millionaire, but I cut the grass. And each time I cut it, it's my grass. And that is satisfying.

Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.

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

Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.

Everything I wrote about wasn't about me, but about the people listening.