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

I would wear flamboyant clothes and long hair, and most singers at the time didn't.

I think people who don't believe in God are crazy. How can you say there is no God when you hear the birds singing these beautiful songs you didn't make?

It's hard to have a friend when your name's a household word.

I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names.

People called rock & roll 'African music.' They called it 'voodoo music.' They said that it would drive the kids insane. They said that it was just a flash in the pan - the same thing that they always used to say about hip-hop.

I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.