Anyone who's grown up or lived on the Jersey Shore knows the place is unique.

Blood moon risin' in a sky of black dust, tell me baby, who do you trust?

When I die throw my body in the back and drive me to the junk yard in my Cadillac.

I think I created my particular stage persona out of my dad's life. And perhaps I even built it to suit him to some degree. I was looking for - when I was looking for a voice to mix with my voice, I put on my father's work clothes, as I say in the book, and I went to work.

The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.

The artists we love, they put their fingerprint on your imagination, and on your heart and your soul.

Elvis Presley is all there is. There just ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with Elvis. He wrote the book. He is everything to do and not to do in the music business.