I've noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I'm not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.

The arts don't exist in isolation.

Another Elvis will not come along. He got wasted, but it's alright.

I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.

Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily.

Creative work is more accurately a machine that digs down and finds stuff, emotional stuff that will someday be raw material that can be used to produce more stuff, stuff like itself - clay to be available for future use.

There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior.