I thank God for Elvis Presley. I thank the Lord for sending Elvis to open the door so I could walk down the road.

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?

They always act this way: push those who are falling.

There is no ceremony, no initiation ritual, no secret hand-shake. All you need to be a writer is to write.

The strange thing with Wikipedia is that the first article that ever gets written about you will define your Wikipedia page forever.

I think I have something valid to say. My words are my bullets. I like to brag that somehow I got it right.

Children love me, dammit!

Death, jewelry, or magic; it sounded like Valentine's Day.

If light can come out of darkness, then alone can love emerge from hatred.

I honor the place within you where, when you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.

The past was so past it hurt.

Remember, Lady Godiva put all she had on a horse and she lost her shirt!