I don't give the devil credit for creating nothing.

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.

I gave up rock 'n' roll for the rock of ages! I used to be a glaring homosexual until God changed me!

I've never seen the devil create music.

I am the architect of rock n' roll. I have to be a fan of all its forms.

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!'

I also like the banging piano - that old good-time piano.