I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.

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?

Its dark and I’m reading my scars because our moments remind me of where I should be.

...knowledge imprisons you. You cannot escape it. What you know you cannot unknow. That's why knowledge is dangerous. Learning will redefine your world, irreversibly.

Know the adjectives that define you and pay no heed to the verbs that defy you.

Cold one day, sweet the next; irresistibly flirty one moment, resistibly obnoxious the next.

We live with that sense of not being enough, and it causes a very painful state.

I'm 31 years old and I want to be part of a championship team before my career is over.

My brother and Lauren are very close with me and they are in Sun Valley, so sometimes I need to go there and feel their presence. And there are times I need to see my bro' alone.

For, rightly, every man is a channel through which heaven floweth, and, whilst I fancied I was criticising him, I was censuring orrather terminating my own soul.

When you flop, that's just another message that you don't know how to play me. Stand up and take your medicine like a man.

Understand who you are, so that you can be the same, whether you're talking to a homeless person or the president of the United States. You're the same person.