CeeLo Green Quotes

The first rock stars were incredibly theatrical. Little Richard and Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley - they were theater artists.

It was when I saw Iggy Pop, that's what did it for me. That changed my life pretty much.

After I saw Kiss on stage, I wanted my show to look like the fourth of July. The persona of Rick James was wild and crazy, sex, drugs and rock and roll.

Back when I was working with the Stones and with Joe Cocker and Neil Young and Neil Diamond and all of those - 'the boys,' I call them - it was fun.

I met Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin when I hung out with Michael Lang just before the Woodstock Festival. They were as charismatic in person as they were on stage.

Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.

I was looking at people like Jim Morrison and David Bowie and Mick Jagger and I thought, Ah! I want to look like them.

Keith Moon is not interested in jazz and won't ever be a jazz drummer because he's more interested in looking good and being screamed at.

I love watching live shows from different artists from different stages of their lives. I'm always interested in the mastery of the live performance.

The extremes of who I'd love to be onstage are David Bowie, Prince, and, I don't know, Bjork.

I loved Carl Perkins, Jerry lee Lewis... not only were they personal friends.

The music alone wasn't enough. It was great, but when an artist had an amazing look - like the MC5, or the Stooges, or Alice Cooper - you really got sucked in. The wardrobe was so important. At a show, you were engrossed in the music, but you were also engrossed in everything from the haircuts to what they were wearing.

This kid's excited because he's with Bad Company and I'm excited because I'm with Chuck Berrys' son.

My influences were Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry.

My favorite guitar players are Chuck Berry and Brian May and Dave Davies from the Kinks.

You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones.

I've always known, before I had a record deal, that the thing is to go out and put on the show. I've been doing that from day one.

You look at Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Bob Seger. All they ever wanted to do was go out there and entertain, and I'm the same way.

My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wonder.

I just got off stage playing with Lynyrd Skynyrd a minute ago. It was a great show. Got to meet some incredible guests. This is the bee's knees.

Not that I'm some rocker, but what I do in a show is probably far more aggressive than what Dean Martin or Bobby Darin ever did.

I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.

I watched Janis one time - we opened for her - and that's the only time I ever saw her. We opened for Jimi Hendrix. I got to stand on the side of the stage and watch him for two hours and then he died. But I got the essence before they left.

That was our first major tour and we got a chance to play in front of like 5000 people every day so it was like a Rock and Roll boot camp for us really, we learned a lot and made a lot of good friends.

Bret Michaels and Dee Snider and I know how to step on a stage and front a band, and we're not ashamed to. We're not shoe gazers.