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.

But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.

I was washing dishes at the Greyhound bus station at the time and I said, 'Awap bop a lup bop a wop bam boom, take 'em out!'

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

I love God, and I'm a follower.

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

I only wore makeup when I went onstage.