 I'm very much a gentleman in what I do. |
| I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names. |
| I don't give the devil credit for creating nothing. |
| But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud. |
| I try to be a guide for people, to make their darkness bright and to make the pathway light, and never to condemn or control or criticize. |
| I was really kind of shy as a child. But I would do things for attention. |
| 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. |
| I love God, and I'm a follower. |
| God gives us the ability, but rock 'n' roll was created by men. |
| And I think a woman should find it a joy to be female because God made both male and female. |
| I only wore makeup when I went onstage. |
| I tried to look presentable for a show, but not for sexual attraction. It was strictly for show business. |
| 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. |
| But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money. |
| To me, true rock 'n' roll has a lot of bottom in it. |
| I thank God for making me a man. |
| I would wear flamboyant clothes and long hair, and most singers at the time didn't. |
| 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. |
| I don't think that you have to be effeminate to be sensitive. |
| I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint. |
