And I'd like to give my love to everybody, and let them know that the grass may look greener on the other side, but believe me, it's just as hard to cut.

I did what I felt, and I felt what I did, at all costs.

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

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

But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.

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

They shoulda called me Little Cocaine, I was sniffing so much of the stuff! My nose got big enough to back a diesel truck in, unload it, and drive it right out again.