"I've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that."

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

"Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens."

"I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most."

"I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax."

"I don't think I'm bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this."

"When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis."

"Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old."

"The army teaches boys to think like men."

"The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck."

"I'm trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It's so easy to get turned."

"Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning."

"I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play."

"Those people in New York are not gonna change me none."

"I'm not trying to be sexy. It's just my way of expressing myself when I move around."

"It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can."

"My movements, ma'am, are all leg movements. I don't do nothing with my body."

"Those movies sure got me into a rut."

"Too much TV hurts movies."

"There are too many people that depend on me. I'm too obligated. I'm in too far to get out."

"I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story."

"I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over."

"I'll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I'll never feel easy smoking a cigarette. I just don't think those things are right for me."

"When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream."

"The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army."

"I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example."

"I'll never make it, it will never happen, because they're never going to hear me 'cause they're screaming all the time."

"Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity."

"I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it's a natural thing."

"I miss my singing career very much."

"Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now."

"I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend."

"Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me."

"Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine."

"The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them."

"I like entertaining people. I really miss it."

"More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me."

"I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were."

"Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'"

"A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business, live concerts."

"After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake."

"Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head."

"I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money."

"People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody."

"From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what."

"I'd just like to be treated like a regular customer."

"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to."

"They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure."

"Man, I really like Vegas."

"I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line."