The only problem was I needed to use my own group, and things didn't happen until I did. It wasn't a real country sound, what I did. I've listened to it, and I think it was more a west coast rock thing, you know? But it fit. It was country, but it was my own interpretation of country.

I ain't got no reverse. I've learned, a little later in life, it works out pretty good to have one every once in a while.

When you're down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.

The only two things in life that make it worth livin' / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin' women

Nobody knows I'm Elvis, nobody knows this is me. After all of my tries, I've got the perfect disguise.

Take your tongue out of my mouth, I'm kissing you good-bye.

Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.