I was really kind of shy as a child. But I would do things for attention.

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

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 look back on my life, comin' out of Macon, Georgia - I never thought I'd be a superstar, a living legend. I never heard of no rock and roll in my life.

I don't give the devil credit for creating nothing.

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

I don't think that you have to be effeminate to be sensitive.