Rock's so good to me. Rock is my child and my grandfather.

It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.

Don't let the same dog bite you twice.

Rock's so good to me. Rock is my child and my grandfather.

A contract is an ask game, and if it asks for an hour, and I submit to an hour, then it's an hour. When I look at a contract, I look at the obligation - where, when, how long, the compensation. If I agree to it, that's the way it is. I have an obligation. They have an obligation.

A song is a song. But there are some songs, ah, some songs are the greatest. The Beatles song 'Yesterday.' Listen to the lyrics.

Charlie Christian played amplified guitar with Benny Goodman's quartet. He was the greatest guitar player that ever was. But he never looked up from the guitar. But I put a little dance to it. They appreciate seein' something along with hearin' something.

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

I love poetry. I love rhyming. Do you know, there are poets who don't rhyme? Shakespeare did not rhyme most of the time, and that's why I do not like him.

I would sing the blues if I had the blues.

If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you've got something they want to hear.

In a way, I feel it might be ill-mannered to try and top myself. The music I play is a ritual. Something that matters to people in a special way. I wouldn't want to interfere with that.

It amazes me when I hear people say, 'I want to go out and find out who I am.' I always knew who I was. I was going to be famous if it killed me.

My dad was the cause of me being in show business. He was not only in poetry but in acting a bit. He was Mordecai in the play 'A Dream of Queen Esther.'

My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.

My singing days have passed. My voice is gone. My throat is worn. And my lungs are going fast.

Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.

Praise doesn't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself.

Rock 'n' roll accepted me and paid me, even though I loved the big bands... I went that way because I wanted a home of my own. I had a family. I had to raise them. Let's don't leave out the economics. No way.

Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.

That's all there was in our house: poetry and choir rehearsal and duets and so forth; I listened to Dad and Mother discuss things about poetry and delivery and voice and diction - I don't think anyone could know how much it really means.

That's the misconceptions that people have, that Chuck Berry went to jail. They're just totally wrong. It might have said something in the large papers in the bigger city headlines and things. But, you take a look at any of the local papers, and you will see that I was acquitted. I never went to jail.

The Big Band Era is my era. People say, 'Where did you get your style from?' I did the Big Band Era on guitar. That's the best way I could explain it.

The music played most around St. Louis was country-western and swing. Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of the country stuff on our predominantly black audience. After they laughed at me a few times, they began requesting the hillbilly stuff.

You don't just go to the studio and say, 'I'm going to write a hit.' It becomes a hit when people like your compositions.

You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.

Don't bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I'm almost grown.

Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.

Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.

I'm not a person for sitting on beaches. What would I do?

Very similar experience happened last year when we released this album, North. It was on Deutsche Grammophon, it was very, very honest. It was the most honest record I've ever written.

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.

We have got to defeat Donald Trump, and we have got to elect Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine.

There is nothing like roast chicken. It is helpful and agreeable, the perfect dish no matter what the circumstances. Elegant or homey, a dish for a dinner party or a family supper, it will not let you down.

I took Spanish in high school and I didn't do too well in it. My Spanish teacher told me not to go on with Spanish anymore, so I was discouraged a little bit.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

When I was younger, I always wanted to be a musician, a performer and an entertainer - but I never thought about becoming a poster or anything like that. It's pretty cool.

I do not live in a world where people can walk on water, or still a storm, or take five loaves of bread and feed 5000 men plus women and children. If that is a requirement of my commitment to Jesus, I find it difficult to stretch my mind outside the capacities of my world view.

When you lose a parent at ten years old, the world seems like a much scarier place. It makes complete sense to me that I took survival courses when I was a teenager and started going to war zones as a reporter. I didn't ever want to be taken advantage of, and I wanted to be able to take care of those around me.

If you hug someone for seven seconds it gives you a chemical drop in your brain.

I live to hail that season by gifted one foretold, when men shall live by reason, and not alone by gold.

Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.

It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care

I love Audrey Hepburn.

Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice.

The day I pitched, I would drink either 'cause I was celebrating or I lost and couldn't sleep.

The interesting thing about Bettie Page that I discovered was to leave the mystery. She always retained a little mystery. Let there be some unknowns.

I like to play golf, but not at a country club.

Sometimes, great collaboration is hard to nurture online, so doing so offline is the way to go.