Controversial Sayings

I could name a country which would be glad to eat up our whole nation without salt.

There are two kinds of fools: one knows not what he does, and the other knows not what he says.

I have been in love with a great many women, and I have found them all equally charming and equally faithless.

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?

I'm not a politician, I'm an artist. I'm not a politician, I'm a musician.

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

The way they are treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell.

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'm an atheist, and I don't believe in God. But I believe in the soul, and I believe in the spirit.

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.