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

There's a lot of things blamed on me that never happened. But then, there's a lot of things that I did that I never got caught at.

When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn't know it!

There's no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left.

Beneath the stains of time the feeling disappears, you are someone else I am still right here.

They're powerful, those songs. At times they've been my only way back, the only door out of the dark, bad places the black dog calls home.

Rick Rubin said, well, I don't know that we will sell records. He said, I would like you to go with me and sit in my living room with a guitar and two microphones and just sing to your heart's content everything you ever wanted to record. I said, that sounds good to me. So I did that. And day after day, three weeks, I sang for him.