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

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

I was directed and commanded by another power. The power of darkness. The power that you've heard so much about. The power that a lot of people don't believe exists. The power of the Devil. Satan.

I try to be a guide for people, to make their darkness bright and to make the pathway light, and never to condemn or control or criticize.

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 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.

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