One day, I just decided I'm ready to go. So I went down with my guitar and sat on the front steps of Sam Phillips recording studio.

I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.

Gospel music is so ingrained into my bones. I can't do a concert without singing a gospel song. It's what I was raised on.

It's all fleeting. As fame is fleeting, so are all the trappings of fame fleeting. The money, the clothes, the furniture.

The fire and excitement may be gone now that we don't go out there and sing them anymore, but the ring of fire still burns around you and I, keeping our love hotter than a pepper sprout.

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

I kept talking to my producers at Columbia about recording one of those [prison] shows. So we went into Folsom on February 11, 1968, and recorded a show live.