It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.

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?

Show me a hero and I'll show you a bum.

I love my mom. My mom loves me. We don't have an easy relationship. I don't think we ever will, but I'd rather have a complicated, misunderstood relationship than have no relationship at all.

I love traveling. I like to keep moving. I love the big open spaces in America.

The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw 'Hair.

Listening to my fans and seeing love and support through social media from them is what I live for.

Cities are for people. A city is where people come to work and raise their families and to spend their money and to walk in the evening. It is not a traffic corridor.

Usually, English personalities are difficult; they dont take criticism easily.

Unfortunately, today's colleges and universities, and especially our business schools, do not offer pragmatic crisis management teachings.

Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown.

Only the stupid and the phlegmatic should teach.