But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud.

I've never seen the devil create music.

If at first you don't succeed, you get back up and you try ... and you try ... and you try it again ... except ice skating, I hate this crap, I quit!

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

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

I got a girl named Bony Maronie, she's as skinny as a stick of macaroni.