“We all have stories we’re living and telling ourselves.”

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it.

There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king.

You can’t shut off the risk and the pain without losing the love that remains.

Roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair. The night’s busted open. These two lanes will take us anywhere.

It was like Elvis came along and whispered some dream in everybody’s ear.

Everybody’s got a hungry heart.

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

When they built you brother they broke the mold.

You get used to anything, sooner or later it just becomes your life.

You’re born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else’s past.

You can’t start a fire without a spark.

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.

I’ve had an experience through music that has touched almost every part of me. It educated me in ways that I didn’t get educated in school. So we try to lay on a bit of that, through being funny, being serious, playing hard.

The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.

It ain’t no sin to be glad you’re alive.

You may be hurt if you love too much, but you will live in misery if you love too little.

You can not live at all if you do not learn to adapt yourself to your life as it happens to be.

Take it upon yourself where you live to make people around you joyful and full of hope.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.

Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father’s expectations or make up for their father’s mistakes.