Morrissey wrote to me and said, I have a song for you and if we release it as a single, you'll be on the charts for the first time since 1972, I said, what time, where?

It's unfortunate that women feel they have to resort to something sensational... All the videos I see now are sexy and raunchy. What's the point? I don't get it?

I got married and basically forgot about Elvis. Then Speedway came. That was the most fun of all, to see him every day all those weeks.

You keep lyin' when you ought to be truthin'.

The one hit song that I have tremendous gratitude for is Boots, because it has a life of its own. It's like being identified with a brand name.

The Columbia years are the most sentimental for me. My parents were together through most of that time and we were a happy, sort of normal family.

Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his films and they've suddenly discovered you. That was a real gift that Quentin gave me.