I hate labels because it should be just music. I don't see anything wrong with disco. Call it anything. It's music.

Real music lovers are actually my favourite kind of people because they like to know, rather than just be told what to think.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me; I can't help it.

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.

I don't worry about new young bands. The bounty of life is infinite and so is music and so are opportunities.