Hopefully I'm bringing to rock n' roll the kind of spontaneity that I love, and always believed rock and roll stands for.
Disco is just pop music you can dance to.
If you're a gay person I'd rather not be stuck in a lift with you.
You can't kill Rock 'n' Roll. It's here to stay
I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
When you start to analyze [rock 'n' roll], it's only because you don't understand it. You're just not connecting with it once you have to start analyzing it.
There was a time I thought I couldn't enjoy rock 'n' roll unless I had heroin in me
Country music belongs to America.
Music is a 24-hour-a-day thing for me.
I'm the greatest rock and roll drummer on the planet and you suck.
The music that I have always liked has always been more rooted in anger or sadness or alienation or any of those inspirational factors that drove rock'n'roll, gospel, and blues. I tend not to value a more pop aesthetic.
Jazz, isn't that just a series of mistakes diguised as musical composition?
Don't Be Cruel is the greatest rock 'n' roll record ever made.
Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.
If you think you are too old to rock 'n roll, then you are.
Back in my day, we called it rock 'n' roll, but then we always reminded listeners that it was no big deal if they didn't like it.
Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.
What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock 'n' roll movies, that feature a band is that they're lip-synching.