I only wore makeup when I went onstage.

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?

No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.

Everyone in our generation lives in a world where you're surrounded by all sorts of music all the time. People's tastes are made of combinations of genres.

As long as you continue to run away from the world, I will not be able to show you your luminosity.

Childhood is the most beautiful of all life's seasons.

A man is as old as his spine is flexible!

There was no closing my eyes and sliding back into that blissful dream of normal. This was my normal now.

My Hindu instinct tells me that all religions are more or less true.

The physician who knows only medicine, knows not even medicine.

I have a file of letters and bits of ephemera from friends who have died. I have had lots of friends who died of AIDS.

I pretty much borrow my entire beauty regime from my mom.