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

I've never seen the devil create music.

That's what Tina Turner did, too - sang blues up-tempo - and they called it rock 'n' roll.

Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they'd pay attention to me.

I don't think a woman has to act like a man to show that she has strength.

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?

I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.