I decided to come back and teach goodness in this business. To teach love, because music is the universal language. We are God's bouquet, and through music we become one.

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 tied down time with a rope but it came back. Then I put my head in a death bowl and my eyes shut up like clams. They didn't come back.

Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.

You teach kids how to succeed when they successfully foil the educational system.

Just the absence of loneliness. That's love enough.

If you do not enjoy what you are doing, you will never be good at it.

the intermittent breeze carried her scent to me again and again , singing in another language of memories from another form .

Gold adulterates one thing only,--the human heart.

You can only look forward as far as you can look back.

One cannot live a creative life without first letting go of the fear of being wrong.

If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk.