That's what Tina Turner did, too - sang blues up-tempo - and they called it rock 'n' roll.

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?

To hope is a long run but hopelessness is wrongdoing to your soul.

We need new partnerships for peace and security.

I love films. I love music. I love poetry and stories. All of that I feel… I sort of get very excited and fed by.

The fellow who can pay only twenty-five cents to see a ball game always will be just as welcome at Comiskey Park as the box seat holder.

There is no first strike in Karate.

Charity is unconscious of itself, there is no accumulation first and then distribution. It is like the flower - natural, open, spontaneous.

Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.

If it hurt me to have to give up a painting I figured it had to hurt them to write the check. That's how I came up with the price for my work.

I wouldn't want to leave it so long before doing a play again, I get very stolid and sluggish if I do too much telly.

Lord, thou madest us for thyself, and we can find no rest till we find rest in thee.