I try to be a guide for people, to make their darkness bright and to make the pathway light, and never to condemn or control or criticize.

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?

I must not imagine what is ‘not’ as a means of escaping what ‘is’. Rather, I must understand what ‘is’ and imagine how I can make it what it is ‘not’.

Always polish the dirt for a refreshing start and seek out to build new mental structures that can help you to become rejuvenated.

Usually speaking the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.

To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time.

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.

I bring terror like Stephen King, A black Casanova, runnin niggaz over like Christine

The folks I read as a kid really set me up. I owe a huge debt to Ray Bradbury and Madeleine L'Engle.

I enjoy what I do and it's a great way to live your life.

Alabama seniors all across the Third Congressional District continue facing high drug costs.

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.