These fingers of mine got brains in 'em.

Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz romantic, and then there's baroque. I find that very dissatisfying. I was trying to find the thread that connects one type of music - one type of musician - to another, and to follow that thread in some kind of natural, evolutionary way.

I never said I was the King Of Rock'n' Roll. I said simply that I'm the best

She didn't mean to be unkind, why she even woke me up to say good-bye.

Don't Be Cruel is the greatest rock 'n' roll record ever made.

You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!

My momma always said, 'You and Elvis are pretty good, but y'all ain't no Chuck Berry.

You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain, too much love drives a man insane. You broke my will, but what a thrill. Goodness gracious, great balls of fire.

I'm coming on home to you instead cause they're all too ugly tonight.

I never set fire to a piano. I'd like to have got away with it, though. I pushed a couple of them in the river. They wasn't any good.

Hippies? Why, I'm the original.

If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano.

Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent.