I've learned to be one of the hardheadedest cats in the world. I've learned that.

I never set fire to a piano. I'd like to have got away with it, though. I pushed a couple of them in the river. They wasn't any good.

She didn't mean to be unkind, why she even woke me up to say good-bye.

Don't Be Cruel is the greatest rock 'n' roll record ever made.

When they look back on me I want 'em to remember me not for all my wives, although I've had a few, and certainly not for any mansions or high livin' money I made and spent. I want 'em to remember me simply for my music.

My momma always said, 'You and Elvis are pretty good, but y'all ain't no Chuck Berry.

Hippies? Why, I'm the original.