See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile.

Rock 'n' roll is just entertainment, and the kids who like to identify their youthful high spirits with a solid beat are thus possibly avoiding other pursuits that could be harmful to them.

The road can be hard on a kid if he's not careful.

The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.

We're gonna rock around the clock.

When the clock strikes 2, 3, and 4, if the band slows down we'll yell for more.

I sat down one night and wrote the line rock, rock, rock everybody.

The world is not a great place because racist people come with a race type of agenda, and it don't make the world great, it makes it worst than ever.

I am a writer....a master of words.'Like a knife, words should be handled carefully. They can cut deeply, the wound may never heal, and the scar can remain for an eternity.

Yeah, I'm working on the 7 volume of "The Life Of One Kid", but the cover it's not written 7 volume...

Criticism, upon the right one, surpasses and prevails, nothing since it causes a sign of self-discredit.

I love making music, though. I love playing.

Lo! the poor toper whose untutored sense, Sees bliss in ale, and can with wine dispense; Whose head proud fancy never taught to steer, Beyond the muddy ecstasies of beer.

His answer to every problem, every setback was “I will work harder!” —which he had adopted as his personal motto.

I had an extraordinary belief in myself. For years people told me to give it up and even though I was poverty- stricken, I never thought I should give it up.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

Some of them wanted to sell me snake oil and I'm not necessarily going to dismiss all of these, as I have never found a rusty snake.