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I love God, and I'm a follower.
I thank God for making me a man.
We're gonna have some fun tonight.
A-bop-bop-a-loom-op-a-lop-bop-boom.
Some situations you cause yourself.
I think that a man should be caring.
No, I've never truly been a minister.
I've never seen the devil create music.
I'm very much a gentleman in what I do.
I only wore makeup when I went onstage.
Plus I love Tanya Tucker and I love country music.
I don't give the devil credit for creating nothing.
To me, true rock 'n' roll has a lot of bottom in it.
I did what I felt, and I felt what I did, at all costs.
If I had my life to live over, I would want to be a man.
I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.
I also like the banging piano - that old good-time piano.
It's not the size of the ship; it's the size of the waves.
Elvis may be the King of Rock and Roll, but I am the Queen.
God is omnipotent, He is omniscient, and He is ever present.
I don't think that you have to be effeminate to be sensitive.
It's hard to have a friend when your name's a household word.
But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud.
I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names.
God gives us the ability, but rock 'n' roll was created by men.
But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.
I am the architect of rock n' roll. I have to be a fan of all its forms.
I let people know that it was all right to do the kinds of things I did.
I got a girl named Bony Maronie, she's as skinny as a stick of macaroni.
I was really kind of shy as a child. But I would do things for attention.
I don't think a woman has to act like a man to show that she has strength.
Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.
I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.
I just want the world to know that God is present, that he's alive for ever more.
I would wear flamboyant clothes and long hair, and most singers at the time didn't.
I always knew I was a man, always felt that I was a man, always wanted to be a man.
A lot of songs I sang to crowds to get their reaction. That's how I knew they'd hit.
And I don't get down on nobody else for doing whatever else they do. To each his own.
But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.
I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.
Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they'd pay attention to me.
That's what Tina Turner did, too - sang blues up-tempo - and they called it rock 'n' roll.
Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.
And I think a woman should find it a joy to be female because God made both male and female.
I saw Uncle John with Long Tall Sally, he saw Aunt Mary coming and he ducked back in the alley.
I also think that what's wrong with all of us is that we don't show enough love toward each other.
I am the innovator. I am the originator. I am the emancipator. I am the architect of rock 'n' roll!
I'm a conductor of revivals. The only minister in the whole package. Little Richard, the evangelist.
I gave up rock 'n' roll for the rock of ages! I used to be a glaring homosexual until God changed me!
A lot of people call me the architect of rock & roll. I don't call myself that, but I believe it's true.