“I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?”

Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering “who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo?”

I would sing the blues if I had the blues.

Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.

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?

I just love stories, and I love movies, learning and seeing the world. Growing up in Iowa, it was like, you wanna see the world? Movies can help you do that.

The real reason your pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can’t see him laughing at you.

It makes me sick when I see a guy just stare at a loose ball and watch it go out of bounds.

It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.

I don’t know how you feel about old age… but in my case I didn’t even see it coming. It hit me from the rear.

Anyone else has to come upstairs and see the Shogun. I’m still the Shogun.

I just live my life, see things theway I do, and I’m just looking for a notion to hang it all on.

I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.