I also like the banging piano - that old good-time piano.

I gave up rock 'n' roll for the rock of ages! I used to be a glaring homosexual until God changed me!

Rock 'n' roll offered me a platform to speak what I felt. It also offered me a platform to support my mama and my brothers and sisters - twelve children.

No, I've never truly been a minister.

I look back on my life, comin' out of Macon, Georgia - I never thought I'd be a superstar, a living legend. I never heard of no rock and roll in my life.

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

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