All these people that I used to know, they're an illusion to me now. Some are mathematicians, some are carpenters' wives.

..When I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody ... hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail

The purpose of art is to stop time.

I heard the tongues of angels and the tongues of men and it all sounded no different to me.

The future for me is already a thing of the past - You were my first love and you will be my last

Yes, and only if my own true love was waiting If I could hear his heart softly pounding Yes, and only if he was lying by me Would I lie in my bed once again.

I was headed for the fantastic lights. No doubt about it. Could it be that I was being deceived? Not likely. I don't think I had enough imagination to be deceived; had no false hope, either. I'd come from a long ways off and had started from a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else.