No, I've never truly been a minister.

I thank God for Elvis Presley. I thank the Lord for sending Elvis to open the door so I could walk down the road.

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

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.

People called rock & roll 'African music.' They called it 'voodoo music.' They said that it would drive the kids insane. They said that it was just a flash in the pan - the same thing that they always used to say about hip-hop.

Plus I love Tanya Tucker and I love country music.

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.