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.

You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain, too much love drives a man insane. You broke my will, but what a thrill. Goodness gracious, great balls of fire.

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

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

Hippies? Why, I'm the original.

I'm coming on home to you instead cause they're all too ugly tonight.

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