I thank God for making me a man.

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.

It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.

No, I've never truly been a minister.

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

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

Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.