I decided to come back and teach goodness in this business. To teach love, because music is the universal language. We are God's bouquet, and through music we become one.

I tried to look presentable for a show, but not for sexual attraction. It was strictly for show business.

A lot of people call me the architect of rock & roll. I don't call myself that, but I believe it's true.

I'm a conductor of revivals. The only minister in the whole package. Little Richard, the evangelist.

I was washing dishes at the Greyhound bus station at the time and I said, 'Awap bop a lup bop a wop bam boom, take 'em out!'

Black people lived right by the railroad tracks and the train would shake their houses at night. I would hear it as a boy and I thought: I'm gonna make a song that sounds like that.

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?