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

And I'd like to give my love to everybody, and let them know that the grass may look greener on the other side, but believe me, it's just as hard to cut.

To me, true rock 'n' roll has a lot of bottom in it.

It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.

I got a girl named Bony Maronie, she's as skinny as a stick of macaroni.

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

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!'