The best substitute for money is ingenuity.

people have a way of laughing at our deams until we make them come true.

I think that one of Elvis' charms was that he could sing almost any kind of music. I am sure that in his heart, which I don't know what was there, but just from his singing I could feel that he was very partial to gospel music.

What I like about singing is that, for me, it's a substitute for the psychiatrist's couch.

My music was called plastic, antiseptic, placid.

I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing. And things snowballed.

I always thought that Elvis could have been a great actor, and that he was put in a lot of unimportant movies when he could have done a lot of great ones.