They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.

I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself.

I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.

Stay in school, stay off drugs, don't make the same mistakes I did, respect yourself, and others will follow.

Rock'n'roll is nothing but Boogie Woogie with stuff on top of it. And if you're black, they name it rhythm'n'blues, and if you're white, they name it rock'n'roll. So, I don't give a... You know.

I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.

Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person.

I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.

In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize marriages that much, either.

I'm very fast on teaching guys. Like, when I came over here, I only had two rehearsals with the band. I wondered when I first got here... but it sure came up great.

They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out different artists for them.

Silence is the best reply to a fool.

[Michelle Obama] used to say to our friends, "Barack's exactly the kind of guy I want to be president. I just wish he didn't want to do it when I was married to him."

Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.

Wear pink!' her mother had said. 'It confuses the enemy.

I give them the head, choke them, hit them in the balls.You'rehting, not playing the piano, you know

Everybody's trying to leave their mark on the world. That's why there's graffiti and babies.

Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.

Every one of us is more beloved than we can possibly understand or imagine. Let us therefore be kinder to one another and kinder to ourselves.

Third box car, midnight train, destination Bangor, Maine. Old worn out suit and shoes, I don't pay no union dues.

I am gonna go into my coaching badges after my England days are finished and I have the time on my international break.