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

I don't give the devil credit for creating nothing.

I would wear flamboyant clothes and long hair, and most singers at the time didn't.

I am the innovator. I am the originator. I am the emancipator. I am the architect of rock 'n' roll!

I'm very much a gentleman in what I do.

But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.

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!'