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

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

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

" No, I've never truly been a minister. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Black people lived right by the railroad tracks, and the train would shake their houses at night. I would hear it as a boy, and I thought: I'm gonna make a song that sounds like that. "

" I've never seen the devil create music. "

" I look back on my life, comin' out of Macon, Georgia - I never thought I'd be a superstar, a living legend. I never heard of no rock and roll in my life. "

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

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

" Plus I love Tanya Tucker and I love country music. "

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

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