Chuck Berry

It amazes me when I hear people say, 'I want to go out and find out who I am.' I always knew who I was. I was going to be famous if it killed me. ”

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. ”

It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest. ”

I love poetry. I love rhyming. Do you know, there are poets who don't rhyme? Shakespeare did not rhyme most of the time, and that's why I do not like him. ”

There has been a great laziness in my soul. Lots of days I could write songs, but I could also take my $400 and play the slot machines at the riverfront casino. ”

My 12th was my most Christian and most boring year of my life. Try as I did, day after day, to cling to righteousness, I was washed down in suds of sinful surroundings. ”

Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact. ”

Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two. ”

The Man Upstairs is taking care of me. ”

My dad was the cause of me being in show business. He was not only in poetry but in acting a bit. He was Mordecai in the play 'A Dream of Queen Esther.' ”