We're the perfect combination. Colonel's an old carny, and me, I'm off the wall.

I'm not kidding myself. My voice alone is just an ordinary voice. What people come to see is how I use it. If I stand still while I'm singing, I'm dead, man. I might as well go back to driving a truck.

The only kind of trouble I've ever been in is when I was stealing eggs when I was little. I think I know right from wrong.

I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God. I don't believe I'd sing the way I do if God hadn't wanted me to.'

I don't like to be called Elvis the Pelvis. It's one of the most childish expressions I've ever heard coming from an adult. But if they wanna call me that, there's nothin' I can do about it, so I just have to accept it.

I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over.

You only pass through this life once, you don't come back for an encore.