“You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!”

I cannot be what I am not.

Everyone deserves to believe they are beautiful.

If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn’t I don’t care.

Get back to where you once belonged.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that’s a problem. Peace and love are eternal.

Before Elvis there was nothing.

We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once?

Don’t underestimate the importance of happiness. As long as you’re happy, who cares what you do?

The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn’t represent the people. It controls them.

As I play the game of life, I try to make it better each and every day. And when I struggle in the night, The magic of the music seems to light the way.

What I’d have liked would have been the money and the hit records without the fame.

Everything is as important as everything else.

I don’t believe in killing whatever the reason!

I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.

Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.

I say what I think and I think what I say.

Haters call me bitch, call me faggot, call me whitey, but I am something you could never be.

Nobody’s going to force me to do something against my will. What do I owe anybody that I should submit my will to them?

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

I am shocking, impertinent and insolent that’s how it is.

Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.