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

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!'

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

I look back on my life, comin' out of Macon, Georgia - I never thought I'd be a superstar, a living legend. I never heard of no rock and roll in my life.

Elvis may be the King of Rock and Roll, but I am the Queen.

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

I'm a conductor of revivals. The only minister in the whole package. Little Richard, the evangelist.