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

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?

Steep fall to the groundshatteringlike clay pigeons missed by bad shotsand unsteady hands.

Beneath every mountain lies a valley and beyond every problem lies a solution.

[He] had to submit to the fate of every newcomer in a small town, where many tongues talk but few heads think.

From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.

Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up

Make the right things easy and the wrong things hard to do.

Take my wife... please. I'm not saying she's ugly, but when she went to see a horror film, the audience thought she was making a personal appearance.

I know how to behave but sometimes I can't be bothered.

If I could meet anybody? The prophet Muhammad.

Don't be intimidated by my outfit, it's Forever 21.