Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

Folks always look good in their coffins.

Her little sister will tell you she don't live here anymore.

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

I get sometimes; I get lonesome right in the middle of a crowd.

A lot of people seem to think I started this business. But rock 'n' roll was here a long time before I came along. Nobody can sing that kind of music like colored people. Let's face it: I can't sing like Fats Domino can. I know that.