Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

Once you get into the book, you've got to constantly find your - the rhythm of your prose. And it ends up being quite a musical experience either way.

I'm the kind of person, I think a lot about everything. Nothin' I can do about it. It's like, I'm a thinkin' fool. That's a big part of me.

Most of these - most people's stage personas are created out of the flotsam and jetsam of their internal geography.

'Darkness on the Edge of Town' came out of a huge body of work that had tons of very happy songs.

Elvis is my religion. But for him, I'd be selling encyclopedias right now.

I heard a political message in rock music. A liberation message. A message of freedom. I heard it in Elvis' voice.