We're gonna have some fun tonight.

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?

If people think nature is their friend then they sure don't need an enemy.

We build this country ourselves every day and we have to be, in the most positive sense, totally unreal.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?

There aren't many roles that are interesting if you're a 40-year-old woman, unless you're Julia Roberts or Cate Blanchett.

Dreams are symbolic in order that they cannot be understood; in order that the wish, which is the source of the dream, may remain unknown.

May we dedicate our lives to serving the Lord and not worry about offending the devil.

Your life shows up for you when you show up for your life.

I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him.

You know, when I eat three peas, I'm pregnant. When I visit a city, I'm buying a house.