There's a fine line between pleasure and pain. Love me like a ball and chain.

You had to pick something like Blue Suede Shoes because it's the flagship of the Sun label, but then I wanted to dig down and find something like Rakin' and Scrapin'.

The songwriting has never really stepped forward from the '50's.

Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene.

I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through.

Elvis is not so difficult as Johnny Cash because his voice is so distinctive. If you try to copy Johnny Cash, it's just going to sound dumb.

There's a fine line between pleasure and pain. Love me like a ball and chain.