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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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

" I love God, and I'm a follower. "

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

" I think they saw me as something like a deliverer, a way out. My means of expression, my music, was a way in which a lot of people wished they could express themselves and couldn't. "

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

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

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

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

" I think that a man should be caring. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I was always my own person. "