“Values are like fingerprints. Nobody’s are the same, but you leave ‘em all over everything you do.”
“Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.”
“Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.”
“I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.”
“I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.”
“The army teaches boys to think like men.”
“I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.”
“I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.”
“Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sorta do ‘em all together, I guess.”
“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.”
“When things go wrong, don’t go with them.”
“If you let your head get too big, it’ll break your neck.”
“The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.”
“Sad thing is, you can still love someone and be wrong for them.”
“Every time I think that I’m getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.”
“Do something worth remembering.”