I never expected to be anybody important.

I don't like people who are in politics for themselves and not for others. You want that, you can go into show business.

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

Viva Las Vegas with your neon flashin' and your one arm bandits crashin' all those hopes down the drain. Viva Las Vegas turnin' day into nighttime, turnin night into daytime. If you see it once, you'll never be the same again.

If you cry when you're in love, it sure ain't no disgrace.

Then came Act II, you seemed to change and acted strange, and why I'll never know.

He holds his guitar like a Tommy gun.