It's hard to have a friend when your name's a household word.

I thank God for Elvis Presley. I thank the Lord for sending Elvis to open the door so I could walk down the road.

I think that a man should be caring.

I look back on my life, comin' out of Macon, Georgia - I never thought I'd be a superstar, a living legend. I never heard of no rock and roll in my life.

I was washing dishes at the Greyhound bus station at the time and I said, 'Awap bop a lup bop a wop bam boom, take 'em out!'

I try to be a guide for people, to make their darkness bright and to make the pathway light, and never to condemn or control or criticize.

I also like the banging piano - that old good-time piano.