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I didn't know that homosexuality was wrong until I read it in the Bible.

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

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

I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.

I did what I felt, and I felt what I did, at all costs.

God would be a very selfish god if he gave all the soul to one race ... When one sings from the heart and it reaches another heart, that's soul.

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

I don't think a woman has to act like a man to show that she has strength.

I got a girl named Bony Maronie, she's as skinny as a stick of macaroni.

If at first you don't succeed, you get back up and you try ... and you try ... and you try it again ... except ice skating, I hate this crap, I quit!

I always knew I was a man, always felt that I was a man, always wanted to be a man.

To me, true rock 'n' roll has a lot of bottom in it.

I thank God for making me a man.

I just want the world to know that God is present, that he's alive for ever more.

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 never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.

I was always my own person.

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

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

Elvis was God-given, there's no other explanation. A Messiah comes around
every few thousand years, and Elvis was it this time.

I tried to look presentable for a show, but not for sexual attraction. It was strictly for show business.

I am the architect of rock n' roll. I have to be a fan of all its forms.

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

I was directed and commanded by another power. The power of darkness ... that a lot of people don't believe exists. The power of the Devil. Satan.

God is omnipotent, He is omniscient, and He is ever present.

I love God, and I'm a follower.

I've never seen the devil create music.

I'm very much a gentleman in what I do.

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.

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

A lot of songs I sang to crowds to get their reaction. That's how I knew they'd hit.

I am the innovator. I am the originator. I am the emancipator. I am the architect of rock 'n' roll!

I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names.

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

Plus I love Tanya Tucker and I love country music.

A lot of people call me the architect of rock & roll. I don't call myself that, but I believe it's true.

If I had my life to live over, I would want to be a man.

My mother died, and I couldn't stand to look at her bedroom any more. I'd get sick. I've always been a momma's boy.

And I think a woman should find it a joy to be female because God made both male and female.

We're gonna have some fun tonight.

I gave up rock 'n' roll for the rock of ages! I used to be a glaring homosexual until God changed me!

I also think that what's wrong with all of us is that we don't show enough love toward each other.

Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they'd pay attention to me.

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

But when I went on the stage to do a show, I would put on makeup because I felt that it enhanced my act; it drew attention to what I was doing.

I would wear flamboyant clothes and long hair, and most singers at the time didn't.

It's not the size of the ship; it's the size of the waves.

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

I'm a conductor of revivals. The only minister in the whole package. Little Richard, the evangelist.

I came from a family where my people didn't like rhythm and blues. Bing Crosby - "Pennies from Heaven" - Ella Fitzgerald, was all I heard.

I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.

I think that a man should be caring.

I only wore makeup when I went onstage.

Elvis may be the King of Rock and Roll, but I am the Queen.

No, I've never truly been a minister.

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

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.

But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud.

Some situations you cause yourself.

God gives us the ability, but rock 'n' roll was created by men.

It's hard to have a friend when your name's a household word.

And I don't get down on nobody else for doing whatever else they do. To each his own.

I saw Uncle John with Long Tall Sally, he saw Aunt Mary coming and he ducked back in the alley.

I'm here to sing.