Talent is useful, but always keep your dagger sharp.

The more of those little light bulbs that can turn on the better. Eventually you’ll have enough to light up a movie screen.

Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.

Just sing it. Don't prove you can sing it. I know you can, you know you can. So just do it, because if you try to prove it, you'll lose.

Elvis Presley is all there is. There just ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with Elvis. He wrote the book. He is everything to do and not to do in the music business.

What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?

We swung between madness and suicide ... it was beautiful!

Real life doesn't have to suck.

I don't worry about anything but winning races.

All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.

The thing that's interesting about wire walking is that we never get to see it other than looking up. It's like a circus thing. It's a guy on a wire.