Elvis was God-given, there's no other explanation. A Messiah comes around every few thousand years, and Elvis was it this time.

I am the innovator. I am the originator. I am the emancipator. I am the architect of rock 'n' roll!

A-bop-bop-a-loom-op-a-lop-bop-boom.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

God would be a very selfish god if he gave all the soul to one race. ... When one sings from the heart and it reaches another heart, that's soul.

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 possess so much, but my love for her absorbs it all. I possess so much, but without her I have nothing.

When you steal from an artist you are stealing their blood, sweat and tears.

I could not lose unless I was caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy.

Do not make excuses, whether it's your fault or not.

The mathematical education of the young physicist [Albert Einstein] was not very solid, which I am in a good position to evaluate since he obtained it from me in Zurich some time ago.

Average people look for ways of getting away with it; successful people look for ways of getting on with it.

Not merely a nation but a nation of nations.

Sexual attraction pairs people, but does not match them.

I call it... the hot dog tree, because... it's a hot dog tree.

I was certainly naïve about the judicial system in America. There's a lot of people who are in prison who are innocent. The system is very flawed.