Rock 'n' roll offered me a platform to speak what I felt. It also offered me a platform to support my mama and my brothers and sisters - twelve children.

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

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

I just want the world to know that God is present, that he's alive for ever more.

I think they saw me as something like a deliverer, a way out. My means of expression, my music, was a way in which a lot of people wished they could express themselves and couldn't.

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

God gives us the ability, but rock 'n' roll was created by men.