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

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

I was directed and commanded by another power. The power of darkness. The power that you've heard so much about. The power that a lot of people don't believe exists. The power of the Devil. Satan.

But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.

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.

I let people know that it was all right to do the kinds of things I did.

But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.