If you aren't gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all.

I like to sit on the front porch of an old cabin I built in the woods and just listen to the birds; I like to fish in the pond and I always throw the fish back.

In the Air Force, I had an old Wilcox Gay recorder, and I used to hear guitar runs on that recorder going (vocalizing) like the chords on "I Walk The Line." And I always wanted to write a love song using that theme, that tune.

When I was a baby, my mama told me son, always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns. But I shot a man in Reno.

When I finally stopped [singing], he had been saying, like, the last day or so, he'd been saying, now, I think we should put this one in the album. So without him saying I want to record you and release an album, he kept - he started saying, let's put this one in the album. So the album, this big question, you know, began to take form, take shape. And Rick [Rubin] and I would weed out the songs.

However, neither he nor anyone else could have become the star Elvis was. Ain't nobody like Elvis. Never was.

If I'm anything, I'm not a singer but I'm a song stylist.