Little Richard

I love God, and I'm a follower.

I also think that what's wrong with all of us is that we don't show enough love toward each other.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

It's hard to have a friend when your name's a household word.

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.