“Without Elvis none of us could have made it.”

I’ve got to play in front of people. If I’m not moved, how can they be moved.

That’ll be the day when I die.

Heartbeat, why do you skip when my baby’s lips meet mine?

Words of love you whisper soft and true Darling I love you.

I’m not trying to stump anybody… it’s the beauty of the language that I’m interested in.

Peggy Sue, Peggy Sue, oh how my heart yearns for you.

Death is very often referred to as a good career move.

My love is bigger than a Cadillac, I try to show you, but you drive me back.

Don’t tell him ‘rock ‘n’ roll’ or they won’t even let you in the hotel.

If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him ‘pop.’

Oh boy, when you’re with me. Oh boy, I want the world to see that you were meant for me.

Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.

It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.

They made it to the middle class, my dad working as a bartender and my mother as a cashier and a maid. I didn’t inherit any money from them. But I inherited something far better – the real opportunity to accomplish my dreams.

A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.

Red Hook Road made me happy, and happy to be alive. It took me out of my home on the coast of South Carolina, placed me in the town along Red hook Road, and changed me the way good books always do.

We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.

I discovered that He had simply given me a different voice to praise the inexhaustible beauty of the made world.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.