Critics who attack my wife bug me. It makes me want to pay 'em a visit so I could give 'em a good punch in the nose.

When I first started, I was really nervous. You could hear my voice quiver. So I started drinking a bit and that helped. A lot of entertainers have a few drinks before going onstage and don't overdo it. Me, it turned into a bigger habit. But I stopped that. I was getting older, and I was thinking about my kids. There's enough roadblocks out there without throwing in more yourself.

I know if I told you what God looked like and felt like then I'd be telling you a story. I just think we don't know. God manifests himself, herself or itself in a way that we need it, in a way that we can grab a hold of and a way that we can put our arms around.

When you touch and change peoples lives with a song, that's when you've made it as an artist

Carry on, carry on, what don't kill us makes us strong.

There's rises and falls and ups and downs in all music.

The way he shook his hips up there on that stage, but before that fateful day when he left Tennessee all of them were calling him the King.