I did what I felt, and I felt what I did, at all costs.

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

My true belief about Rock 'n' Roll--and there have been a lot of phrases attributed to me over the years--is this: I believe this kind of music is demonic. ... A lot of the beats in music today are taken from voodoo, from the voodoo drums. If you study music in rhythms, like I have, you'll see that is true. I believe that kind of music is driving people from Christ. It is contagious

Black people lived right by the railroad tracks and the train would shake their houses at night. I would hear it as a boy and I thought: I'm gonna make a song that sounds like that.

Gay people are the sweetest, kindest, most artistic, warmest and most thoughtful people in the world. And since the beginning of time all they've ever been is kicked.

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

And I don't get down on nobody else for doing whatever else they do. To each his own.