Badlands, you got to live it everyday, let the broken hearts stand as the price you've got to pay.

The only thing I know as I get older is that I don't really need to be No. 1.

But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got.

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

Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.

I'm interested in what it means to be an American. I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I'm interested in trying to define what that country is.

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.