I let people know that it was all right to do the kinds of things I did.

To me, true rock 'n' roll has a lot of bottom in it.

And I'd like to give my love to everybody, and let them know that the grass may look greener on the other side, but believe me, it's just as hard to cut.

They shoulda called me Little Cocaine, I was sniffing so much of the stuff! My nose got big enough to back a diesel truck in, unload it, and drive it right out again.

I think they saw me as something like a deliverer, a way out. My means of expression, my music, was a way in which a lot of people wished they could express themselves and couldn't.

That's what Tina Turner did, too - sang blues up-tempo - and they called it rock 'n' roll.

I just want the world to know that God is present, that he's alive for ever more.