Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.

We have to focus on his early work, and just one or two of his movies, and elements of his TV shows, to keep his memory pure. People now know that Elvis could play a mean rhythm guitar himself, and needed no other musicians to perform a great song. But Elvis was not just a rock star, he was an all-round entertainer.

Rock is very, very important and very, very ridiculous.

In the midnight of a soul's unsleeping, hear the waterfall of women weeping. Hear the distant noise of traffic stalling, hear the prostituted children calling.

No one respects the flame quite like the fool who's badly burned

The fact of the matter is, I'm f**king brilliant. Not 'was' brilliant. 'Am' brilliant.

The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life.