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

Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz; romantic, and then there's baroque. I find that very dissatisfying. I was trying to find the thread that connects one type of music - one type of musician - to another, and to follow that thread in some kind of natural, evolutionary way.

I'm dragging the audience to hell with me

Y'know, there's nothin' like tearing up a good club now and then.

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

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

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