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I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll.

When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.

I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.

Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.

I got into the soul music, but I wanted to rock. I was a rocker.

I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were.

I got rock in me.

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

Rock'n'roll saved my soul.

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