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

I also like the banging piano - that old good-time piano.

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

A-bop-bop-a-loom-op-a-lop-bop-boom.

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 think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.