I've never seen the devil create music.
I think that a man should be caring.
I'm very much a gentleman in what I do.
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 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 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 tried to look presentable for a show, but not for sexual attraction. It was strictly for show business.
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.
I was really kind of shy as a child. But I would do things for attention.
I would wear flamboyant clothes and long hair, and most singers at the time didn't.