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" Rock 'n' roll offered me a platform to speak what I felt. It also offered me a platform to support my mama and my brothers and sisters - twelve children. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" I thank God for making me a man. "

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

" I only wore makeup when I went onstage. "

" I would wear flamboyant clothes and long hair, and most singers at the time didn'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. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" I was always my own person. "

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

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

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

" I've never gotten money from most of those records. And I made those records: In the studio, they'd just give me a bunch of words, I'd make up a song! The rhythm and everything. 'Good Golly Miss Molly'! And I didn't get a dime for it. "