Step by step, one by one, higher and higher. Step by step, rung by rung, climbing Jacob's ladder.

I want a new drug, one that won't make me sick. One that won't make me crash my car, or make my head three feet thick.

I grew up in Marin County north of San Francisco, and in the 1950s and '60s it was a natural paradise.

My first kiss can be summed up in one word - unsuccessful.

In '87 - four years after 'Sports' was released - my family and I began vacationing in Montana. I soon bought my first piece of land in Ravalli County, in the western part of the state.

Step by step, one by one, higher and higher. Step by step, rung by rung, climbing Jacob's ladder.

A lot has been written and said about why he was so great, but I think the best way to appreciate his greatness is just to go back and play some of the old records. Time has a way of being very unkind to old records, but Elvis' keep getting better and better.