I've never seen the devil create music.
God gives us the ability, but rock 'n' roll was created by men.
Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they'd pay attention to 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.
It's hard to have a friend when your name's a household word.
Black people lived right by the railroad tracks and the train would shake their houses at night. I would hear it as a boy and I thought: I'm gonna make a song that sounds like that.