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

I was really kind of shy as a child. But I would do things for attention.

I only wore makeup when I went onstage.

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

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.

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

Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.