I came from a family where my people didn't like rhythm and blues. Bing Crosby - "Pennies from Heaven" - Ella Fitzgerald, was all I heard.

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?

People and nations cannot be happy, if they do not acknowledge the Lordship of Jesus Christ

We have a lot of thoughts throughout our entire life, but ultimately we get all to the conclusion of a single thought: Death!

Is he ever going to learn?

I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.

I don't enjoy cooking when I'm high. And I don't want to be eating garbage because then I'll feel gross.

You have nice manners for a thief and a liar," said the dragon.

After my 1985 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, I was wooed by producers in Hollywood, who told me they wanted to turn my act into a sitcom.

See a pin and pick it up, and, all day long, you'll have a pin.

You can't say enough about fishing. Though the sport of kings, it's just what the deadbeat ordered.

Women have every right; they just have to excercise them.