I only wore makeup when I went onstage.

That's what Tina Turner did, too - sang blues up-tempo - and they called it rock 'n' roll.

Gay people are the sweetest, kindest, most artistic, warmest and most thoughtful people in the world. And since the beginning of time all they've ever been is kicked.

When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played up-tempo, you call it rock 'n' roll; at a regular tempo, you call it rhythm and blues.

A-bop-bop-a-loom-op-a-lop-bop-boom.

Elvis may be the King of Rock and Roll, but I am the Queen.

People called rock & roll 'African music.' They called it 'voodoo music.' They said that it would drive the kids insane. They said that it was just a flash in the pan - the same thing that they always used to say about hip-hop.