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.

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.

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

I found my thrill on Blueberry Hill.

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

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

All words, in every language, are metaphors.

I miss that smile covered with the tears of longing.

Emotions make us human. Denying them makes us beasts.

It is good if your enemy underestimates you. The dumber they think you are the more surprised they are when you kill them.

There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust.

It's simple, you just take something and do something to it, and then do something else to it. Keep doing this, and pretty soon you've got something.

I don't like sitting at a keyboard.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

What do you want?' is too imprecise to produce a meaningful and actionable answer.

My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.