Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they'd pay attention to me.

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

If at first you don't succeed, you get back up and you try ... and you try ... and you try it again ... except ice skating, I hate this crap, I quit!

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

A lot of people call me the architect of rock & roll. I don't call myself that, but I believe it's true.

I always knew I was a man, always felt that I was a man, always wanted to be a man.

God gives us the ability, but rock 'n' roll was created by men.