About myself I have no great illusions. I know what I am. I know what I'm good at. I know what I ain't. I'm always hoping to surprise myself. But I do have a love of music and I do love to communicate it, and that's the best I can do, really. And I can raise a good family, too.

I consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort of pass it on. It's really a passing through. In other words, you receive and you transmit.

What's the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that's at a normal job - and I ain't there yet.

Before Elvis, everything was in black and white. Then came Elvis. Zoom, glorious Technicolor.

It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere.

To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.

Its called a playground, but its nearer to a battlefield. It can be brutal