Rock 'n' roll offered me a platform to speak what I felt. It also offered me a platform to support my mama and my brothers and sisters - twelve children.
I am the architect of rock n' roll. I have to be a fan of all its forms.
A-bop-bop-a-loom-op-a-lop-bop-boom.
I did what I felt, and I felt what I did, at all costs.
It's hard to have a friend when your name's a household word.
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.