“All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.”

It’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.

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

Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.

Don’t let the same dog bite you twice.

I have so many entities now as grow older you gain responsibilities, you know, real estate, and I like video, and you know I want to live a little you know, because time is passing, its not as long as it has been.

Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.

They’re drinkin’ home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin’ there got all shook up.

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.

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.

Rock is my child and my grandfather.

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.

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.

Maybellene, why can’t you be true?

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.

Looking hard for a drive in, searching for a corner cafe, where the hamburgers sizzle on an open grill night and day.

Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive.

I once received a cape that was made from the little purple bags that Crown Royal Whisky comes in.

The universe is a treasure box and your grit is the key.

Everyday is a gift, every gift is a chance to feel certain and every certainty is a exhilarating inspiration to do better.

Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that’s too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.

I think the whole concept of monotheism is a gift from the gods.

My comedy is not mine. It’s a gift. I’m not that smart.

The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present.

That’s my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck’s back. If it’s not positive, I didn’t hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.