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I think a lot of people came into rock n' roll to try to change the world. I came into rock n' roll to make music.

Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music.

Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do - take you to a better place.

I was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll music even before it started.

I was always fascinated with rock 'n' roll, or girls, or something like that when I was a kid.

I grew up listening to everything. And rock and roll has always been a big, big part of it - as big a part of what I do as any other type of music.

Rock n' roll was a kid when I was a kid.

It was the early days of Rock 'n' Roll in this country. We were all struggling to learn music, it might be Country, Jazz, Classical, Blues or even Rock 'n' Roll.

I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.