“Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t going away.”

My fans want my shirt. They can have my shirt. They put it on my back.

Rhythm is something you either have or don’t have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

The army teaches boys to think like men.

I am not the King. Jesus Christ is the King. I’m just an entertainer.

You look like an angel, walk like an angel, talk like an angel. But I got wise, you’re the devil in disguise.

I don’t mind being controversial. Even Jesus wasn’t loved in his day.

Whatever it is, go back and do it again.

Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.

When we kiss my heart’s on fire, burning with a strange desire.

Everything is so dreamy when you are young. After you grow up it kind of becomes, just real.

Take my hand, take my whole life, too.

Do something worth remembering.

When your intelligence don’t tell you something ain’t right, your conscience gives you a tap you on the shoulder and says ‘Hold on’. If it don’t, you’re a snake.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine

My philosophy of life is simple: I need someone to love, something to wait and do something.

Don’t leave my embrace for here in my arms is your place.

It’s better to burn out than to fade away.

Your smile stuck in my soul but your touch has faded away.

Why do the people who complete our emptiness live far away?  

Heaven is a place not too far away.

I’m not going to make movies that tell children, “You should despair and run away”.

Our lives are like the wind or like sounds. We come into being, resonate with each other. Then fade away.

Freedom is never more than a generation away from extinction.

I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.