I was washing dishes at the Greyhound bus station at the time and I said, 'Awap bop a lup bop a wop bam boom, take 'em out!'

A-bop-bop-a-loom-op-a-lop-bop-boom.

But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.

I'm very much a gentleman in what I do.

Black people lived right by the railroad tracks and the train would shake their houses at night. I would hear it as a boy and I thought: I'm gonna make a song that sounds like that.

I look back on my life, comin' out of Macon, Georgia - I never thought I'd be a superstar, a living legend. I never heard of no rock and roll in my life.

To me, true rock 'n' roll has a lot of bottom in it.