I got a girl named Bony Maronie, she's as skinny as a stick of macaroni.

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.

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

Gay people are the sweetest, kindest, most artistic, warmest and most thoughtful people in the world. And since the beginning of time all they've ever been is kicked.

And I don't get down on nobody else for doing whatever else they do. To each his own.

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

Rock 'n' roll doesn't glorify God. You can't drink out of God's cup and the devil's cup at the same time. I was one of the pioneers of that music, one of the builders. I know what the blocks are made of because I built them.