If you think all men are created equal, you haven't seen Bo Diddley in the shower.

A good band is like a team. You want to have the right balance. It's not always the best people you need, but the right ones for the job.

Rock 'n' roll was two pegs below being a prisoner of war back then.

I was a Gordon Lightfoot fan before he ever had a song out. You just knew he was pure talent and he was going to be successful. Gordon has written and recorded some of the greatest music ever.

I dont know whos left to hear us. But if there are people who want the real thing, weve got it. My band rocks, and I plan to keep doing it till nobody shows up to see it anymore.

I hope the Canada Pops can play in E and A. I do 'Forty Days' and 'Bo Diddley'. I don't change songs, just bands.

Wherever there are rock n rollers, well play. Thats what weve been doing for more than 30 years - rock n roll. Its made me everything from an honorary mayor to honorary member of a motorcycle gang.

I am a cross between Carl Perkins and Led Zeppelin.

I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.

You can't do anything about the past, it's done and can't be mended. But the future is different, if you just think what you really want and reach out and take it.

We undress ourselves in many ways when we become close friends

The harder they fall, the harder they become.

This guy was a humorless bag of nothing but.

I wonder if there are soft-spoken voices who deliver assignments to all of us in various times ... It is nice to think I have company-that others dance to the muted music I hear.

A person who lacks the verdancy of justice is dry, totally without tender goodness, totally without illuminating virtue.

To be 'on purpose' means you're doing what you love to do, doing what you're good at, and accomplishing what's important to you.

I'd kiss you, but you smell like a gym bag.

The "end of history" has been proclaimed many times, always falsely.

I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.