I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.

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.

Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.

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 saw Uncle John with Long Tall Sally, he saw Aunt Mary coming and he ducked back in the alley.

I don't give the devil credit for creating nothing.

I try to be a guide for people, to make their darkness bright and to make the pathway light, and never to condemn or control or criticize.