Clean living keeps me in shape. Righteous thoughts are my secret. And New Orleans home cooking.

Well, I wouldn't want to say that I started it (rock 'n' roll), but I don't remember anyone else before me playing that kind of stuff.

Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New Orleans.

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.

I found my thrill on Blueberry Hill.

I traveled all over for about 50 years, I love a lot of places and I've been a lot of places, but I just don't care to leave home.

I use to love you honey, 'til you spent all my money.

Don't send me no letter, cause I can't read.

Extreme inequality and financial crisis usually coincide. But the elite who cause it usually come out OK. And they are usually man.

When you say you believe, you allow the possibility of disappointment. And from disappointment or betrayal, there may come despair. Such is the way of the mind.

Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.

Humans are animals of habit.

Personally, I think knees should be kept for the eighth or ninth date, or the wedding day. As a nice surprise you know? 'oh, my darling, you have knees! I never would have thought

I'm not all that enthralled by show business, and I'm not that much of a highbrow.

There is a power in people who dream big and who try hard.

Your devotion is nothing more than cowardice. You would not be here if you had anywhere else to go.

I think the big force is going to be consumer buying power.

I think people - what people want to do is make [economy] get worse.