It was like Elvis came along and whispered some dream in everybody's ear

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.

It took quite a bit of work and time and mistakes to begin to feel - to understand the strength that comes along with building a home life.That was very mysterious to me. I was very skeptical of it for a long time, and didn't understand it fully until Patti [ Scialfa] and I got together.

Mental illness and creativity are - it's a thin line in between the two. I tend to believe that.

Roy Orbison is singing for the lonely, hey, that's me and I want you only.

Politics and life go hand in hand.

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.