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 only wore makeup when I went onstage.

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

I think that a man should be caring.

I let people know that it was all right to do the kinds of things I did.

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

Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.