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

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!'

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

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.

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

I love God, and I'm a follower.