When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played up-tempo, you call it rock 'n' roll; at a regular tempo, you call it rhythm and blues.

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

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

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

I think people who don't believe in God are crazy. How can you say there is no God when you hear the birds singing these beautiful songs you didn't make?

My true belief about Rock 'n' Roll--and there have been a lot of phrases attributed to me over the years--is this: I believe this kind of music is demonic. ... A lot of the beats in music today are taken from voodoo, from the voodoo drums. If you study music in rhythms, like I have, you'll see that is true. I believe that kind of music is driving people from Christ. It is contagious

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.