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We had a really vast music collection and I was raised around rock'n'roll, it's just the way it was.

When I talk about rock n' roll, to me, that goes back to the beginning of the 1950s. Blue suede shoes and sideburns, man. Pink and black coloured clothes. Turn your collar up, comb your hair in ducktails. And the music was cool. It was a whole culture then - a different world.

I can't even picture being without rock 'n'roll.

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.

Rock 'n' roll is like a circus today.

I think my legacy should be that when I started in show business, there wasn't no such thing as rock n' roll. When I started with 'Tutti Frutti,' that's when rock really started rocking.

Rock and roll's relatively new, in the sense of the Fifties, Sixties, right? They invented the first sort of rock stars, and they took it to excess, and then the excess became bitter, tormented. Then it became okay to succeed.

Rock and roll is here to stay.

I always loved rock 'n' roll.