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.

Whatever it is, go back and do it again.

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.

When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.

I don't think I'm bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

The walls have ears, ears that hear each little sound you make every time you stamp, throw a lamp.

Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.