To me, it's important to prove that this isn't just teenage kids' s**t and you should feel embarrassed when you're over forty and still doing it..

Before Elvis, everything was in black and white. Then came Elvis. Zoom, glorious Technicolor..

I've got nothing against daylight. I don't live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time..

I don't regret nuthin..

You don't find a style. A style finds you.

The electric guitar meant that you could have a band with a drummer and a couple of guitars. And that put a lot of horn players out of work..

I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral..

I've never turned blue in someone else's bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners..

Rap - so many words, so little said..

If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they're asleep..

George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently..

To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you..

There was a knock on our dressing-room door. Our manager shouted, 'Keith! Ron! The Police are here!' Oh, man, we panicked, flushed everything down th….

To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing..

I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory..

I was number 1 on the who's likely to die list for 10 years...I was really disappointed when I fell off that list..

A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence..