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.

Since my baby left me, I've found a new place to dwell, down at the end of Lonely Street at Heartbreak Hotel.

In this day and time you can't even get sick; you are strung-out! Well by God, I'll tell you something, friend: I have never been strung-out in my life, except on music!

The image is one thing and the human being is another...it's very hard to live up to an image.

I was almost always true to you.

The man who can sing when he hasn't got a thing, he's the king of the whole wide world.

I wouldn't call girls a hobby. It's a pastime.