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

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

God is omnipotent, He is omniscient, and He is ever present.

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.

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

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.

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.