God gives us the ability, but rock 'n' roll was created by men.

I always knew I was a man, always felt that I was a man, always wanted to be a man.

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

I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names.

I think they saw me as something like a deliverer, a way out. My means of expression, my music, was a way in which a lot of people wished they could express themselves and couldn't.

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.

I gave up rock 'n' roll for the rock of ages! I used to be a glaring homosexual until God changed me!