Remember when you used to watch TV in the Sixties and you'd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what rock 'n' roll is becoming. It's your parents' music.

Rock and roll is here to stay.

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.

The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.

There's an edge to real rock 'n' roll. It's all that matters.