“Success makes life easier. It doesn’t make living easier.”

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.

It’s time to impeach the president and get a man in there to get us out of this mess.

Acceptance helps people move on with the rest of their lives.

One percent doubt is zero percent faith.

The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.

Better to not know which moment may be your last. Every morsel of your entire being alive to the infinite mystery of it all.

How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.

Look deep within yourself, and you’ll find something amazing.

Love can sometimes achieve the impossible.

The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.