I did what I felt, and I felt what I did, at all costs.

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.

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?

God gives us the ability, but rock 'n' roll was created by men.

Create your own heaven on earth by utilising the power of your heart to bring your true desire into your reality.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously if they be not altered for the better designedly.

A little of what you like does you good. But you can have too much of a good thing.

Nature delights in progress; in advance.

I am for wine and the embrace of questionable women.

Nowadays it's hard to get somebody to invest the time - everybody wants to be famous rather than be a good musician.

Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste.

I do not regret the folly of my youth, but the timidity.

I've grown up with my parents' music tastes, listening to Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones.

Matters of the heart are important to me. All this materialism and all the money and wealth are things that you don't take to the grave. One day you have it. The next day you don't.