I always like the studio best, once I got the hang of it and the control. I like it because it's complete control

If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.

The world is still spinning and so are we and so are you. When the spinning stops - that'll be the time to worry. Not before.

I didn't come after Elvis and Dylan, I've been around always. But if I see or meet a great artist, I love 'em.

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones

Laurel and Hardy. That's John and Yoko, and we stand a better chance under that guise, because all the serious people, like Martin Luther King, and Kennedy, and Gandhi, got shot.

I felt an obligation even then to write a song that people would sing in the pub or on a demonstration. That is why I would like to compose songs for the revolution.