I am a thing of beauty.

If I had done everything I'm credited with, I'd be speaking to you from a laboratory jar at Harvard.

Rock 'n roll smells phony and false. It is sung, played and written for the most part by cretinous goons and by means of its almost imbecilic reiteration and sly, lewd, in plain fact, dirty lyrics ... manages to be the martial music of every side-burned delinquent on the face of the earth.

The record shows, I took the blows . And did it my way.

For years I've nursed a secret desire to spend the Fourth of July in a double hammock with a swingin' redheaded broad. But I could never find me a double hammock

The best is yet to come, and won't that be fine? You think you've seen the sun, but you ain't seen it shine.

Bad reviews I've gotten never diminished the number of people in my audience; good reviews have never added to the number of people in my audience; be your own critic.