It's not the size of the ship; it's the size of the waves.

It's hard to have a friend when your name's a household word.

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'm a conductor of revivals. The only minister in the whole package. Little Richard, the evangelist.

I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.

I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names.

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