That's what Tina Turner did, too - sang blues up-tempo - and they called it rock 'n' roll.

Black people lived right by the railroad tracks and the train would shake their houses at night. I would hear it as a boy and I thought: I'm gonna make a song that sounds like that.

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.

I don't think a woman has to act like a man to show that she has strength.

A lot of people call me the architect of rock & roll. I don't call myself that, but I believe it's true.

I saw Uncle John with Long Tall Sally, he saw Aunt Mary coming and he ducked back in the alley.

I am the architect of rock n' roll. I have to be a fan of all its forms.