That Elvis, man, he is all there is. There ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with him. He wrote the book. But for him, I'd be selling encyclopedias right now. There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king.

The Catholic religion at the time was much darker and more mysterious. The entire mass was in Latin. The church was - if you go to my church now, it's incredibly bright inside. But at - when I was young, it was very dark inside. And it was just the difference in the way that they've painted it since I've gone there. And it strives for a very different and welcoming spirit.

The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive.

For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in; my intelligence was elsewhere.

Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous.

I always felt that the musician's job was to provide an alternative source of information.

They say "ya gotta stay hungry"... Hey Baby...I'm just about starvin' tonight!