I don't want to make a record like in the '50s or the '60s or the '70s. I want to make a record like today, that`s right now.

They wanted to know why I did what I did. Well, sir I guess there's just meanness in the world.

In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged. I also had the distinction of being the only altar boy knocked down by a priest during mass.

The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.

You use to drive me wild, but lately you get your kicks from just knocking me down, down, down.

For the ones who had a notion, A notion deep inside, That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive I wanna find one face that ain't looking through me I wanna find one place, I wanna spit in the face of these badlands

So I bought a forty-four magnum, it was solid steel cast, and in the blessed name of Elvis, well I just let it blast 'til my TV lay in pieces.