Las Vegas is the only place I know where money really talks--it says, Goodbye.

Rock 'n roll smells phony and false. It is sung, played and written for the most part by cretinous goons and by means of its almost imbecilic reiteration and sly, lewd, in plain fact, dirty lyrics ... manages to be the martial music of every side-burned delinquent on the face of the earth.

And now the end is near, and so I face the final curtain.

Nothing anybody's said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does.

I would like to be remembered as a man who brought an innovation to popular singing.

The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.

I get an audience personally involved in a song - because I'm involved myself. It's not something I do deliberately: I can't help myself. If the song is a lament at the loss of love, I get an ache in my gut. I feel the loss myself and I cry out the loneliness, the hurt and the pain that I feel.