I am the innovator. I am the originator. I am the emancipator. I am the architect of rock 'n' roll!
A-bop-bop-a-loom-op-a-lop-bop-boom.
I did what I felt, and I felt what I did, at all costs.
Elvis may be the King of Rock and Roll, but I am the Queen.
And I'd like to give my love to everybody, and let them know that the grass may look greener on the other side, but believe me, it's just as hard to cut.
It's not the size of the ship; it's the size of the waves.
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!
Gay people are the sweetest, kindest, most artistic, warmest and most thoughtful people in the world. And since the beginning of time all they've ever been is kicked.
A lot of people call me the architect of rock & roll. I don't call myself that, but I believe it's true.
Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.
I also think that what's wrong with all of us is that we don't show enough love toward each other.
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.
People called rock & roll 'African music.' They called it 'voodoo music.' They said that it would drive the kids insane. They said that it was just a flash in the pan - the same thing that they always used to say about hip-hop.
I was directed and commanded by another power. The power of darkness. The power that you've heard so much about. The power that a lot of people don't believe exists. The power of the Devil. Satan.
I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.
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 decided to come back and teach goodness in this business. To teach love, because music is the universal language. We are God's bouquet, and through music we become one.
My true belief about Rock 'n' Roll--and there have been a lot of phrases attributed to me over the years--is this: I believe this kind of music is demonic. ... A lot of the beats in music today are taken from voodoo, from the voodoo drums. If you study music in rhythms, like I have, you'll see that is true. I believe that kind of music is driving people from Christ. It is contagious
I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.
I think people who don't believe in God are crazy. How can you say there is no God when you hear the birds singing these beautiful songs you didn't make?
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.
I'm very much a gentleman in what I do.
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.
I let people know that it was all right to do the kinds of things I did.
God gives us the ability, but rock 'n' roll was created by men.
