I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.

On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Elvis eleven.

I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.

If you want to be the best, baby, you've got to work harder than anybody else.

I've done some things I wish I could erase. . . . I invented mistakes. But the mistakes must be seen in context, and they must be weighed along with the positives.

In terms of addiction, there is nothing more powerful than men's toys.

You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.