I have no one to leave the money to. I'm a single man. I like spending my money.

Ask anyone. If it hadn't been for Elvis, I don't know where popular music would be. He was the one that started it all off, and he was definitely the start of it for me.

When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano's is the most ungainly rock' n' roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis.

I really appreciate my performing so much better, as I get older. I don't take it for granted anymore. I really relish it and love it.

I've always wanted to smash a guitar over someone's head. You just can't do that with a piano.

After claws and feathers, he took skin and bone, shaped it like an hour glass and made the angels moan.

I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.