I am the innovator. I am the originator. I am the emancipator. I am the architect of rock 'n' roll!

I don't think a woman has to act like a man to show that she has strength.

I saw Uncle John with Long Tall Sally, he saw Aunt Mary coming and he ducked back in the alley.

When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played up-tempo, you call it rock 'n' roll; at a regular tempo, you call it rhythm and blues.

Rock 'n' roll doesn't glorify God. You can't drink out of God's cup and the devil's cup at the same time. I was one of the pioneers of that music, one of the builders. I know what the blocks are made of because I built them.

People called rock & roll 'African music.' They called it 'voodoo music.' They said that it would drive the kids insane. They said that it was just a flash in the pan - the same thing that they always used to say about hip-hop.

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