Don’t hide your scars. They make you who you are

If you don't know the guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he's just like you. He has the same dreams, the same hopes and fears. It's one world, pal. We're all neighbors.

Rock n' roll is the most disgusting form of expression, it's brutal, malefic, a pestilential aphrodisiac, the preferred music of the delinquents of the earth.

I'm just a singer, Elvis was the embodiment of the whole American culture.

People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.

I play to all people - all colors, all creeds ~ drunk, sober, everybody.

If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it... it possesses you.