What the world needs now is love, sweet love.

I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was my big inspiration.

I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.

Elvis was, at least the times I was around him, Elvis was a practical joker. He was always, had some little mischievous something going.

I was lucky enough to first meet Elvis at his house in Bel Air and he used to invite different artists, singers and musicians, to come and jam with him at his house.

I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.

Ignorance is kind of bliss.

I think to just single out a highlight of Elvis's career is pretty much impossible. As far as being a fan of his, a lifetime fan, there were just too many highlights.

Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my work and singing and my writing.

The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.

Put a little love in your heart, and the world will be a better place.

Day by day, there exists the possibility for the dream to come true.

Madison, or “Maddie, ” as she preferred, wondered what could be at the end of that road.

When you see a woman wearing McQueen, there’s a certain hardness to the clothes that makes her look powerful. It kind of fends people off.

Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.

Every religion is good—every religion is true to him who in his good caution and conscience believes it.

People are here because they've got baggage. I'm talking curbside-check-in, pay-the-fine-'cause-it's-over-fifty-pounds kind of baggage. Get it?

A lot of my old stuff is pretty simple. The new stuff is slightly more in-depth.

You’re never as smart as you think you are when you are winning and never as dumb as you feel when you are losing.

Never take candy from strangers.

Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.