General Sayings

I am not a Caesar, nor a Borgia, nor a Napoleon. I am only a poet.

It is not a question of how much you can love, but how much you can bear.

Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.

The most terrible of all feelings is the feeling of having hope without a future.

Don't look for meaning in everything. Do you find meaning in a chair?

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sway all over.

It's getting so bad, a colored man hasn't got any country.

I don't play notes, I play feelings.

I wish they would just let me play my guitar and not make a big thing out of all this other stuff.

I reinvented myself so many times that I don't know who I am anymore.

The only thing that ever separated us was our minds. Those are gone now.

I don't like to be bored. I like to be entertained. I like to be amused. I like to be shocked.

Me don't have no education. Me have inspiration. If me was educated, me would be a damn fool.

Rock 'n' roll? It's the most brutal, ugly, degenerate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.

I never had a mother, never had a father, never had a home, I never had a husband. I just had me.

How can you be an artist and not reflect the times? That to me is the definition of an artist.

I'm not a diva. I'm a queen.

I'm not a diva. I'm just a woman who sings.

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.