Priscilla Presley Quotes

When I was a kid, I used to look in the mirror and pretend I was Elvis.

When Elvis made his mass-media debut on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' - his notorious gyrations filmed only from the waist up - I fell off the family chaise longue with delight.

Elvis may have been my first hero, but you couldn't relate to him.

When I first came into this world, Elvis was already fat.

I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.

I'm completely absorbed by Peter Guralnick's definitive, two-part biography of Elvis Presley: 'Last Train To Memphis' and 'Careless Love.' Meticulously researched, this is a compelling mix of history, myth-busting, and, of course, some timeless music.

It's very surreal. It seems like everywhere I go, people always talk about 'Indiana Jones,' and I realized over the years it has made a huge impact on their childhoods... I feel very fortunate to be a part of this.

When I used to go to Elvis's house was always a nightmare trying to get into the house because of so many fans outside the gate and he really couldn't go anywhere without sneaking in or doing something because people just wanted to be around him and to be with him.

I was obsessed with Elvis Presley when I was little.

My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres.

Without Elvis none of us could have made it.

If you're the Rolling Stones, you can sing 'Start Me Up' for 35 years, and people still cheer.

That Mick Jagger, I feel sorry for him. After all these years he still can't get no satisfaction.

I'd love to interview Mick Jagger, but that might be scary.

I feel like Elvis. Only alive.

When I was kid, I remember playing 'Vogue' by Madonna over and over and over again. And ah, you know, something about the beat was really cool, and Madonna, visually, was on TV all the time and I thought she was just so beautiful.

And I just remember, you know, breaking into tears and feeling so empty because, as long as Elvis was in the world, you always knew something was going and he always had something that kept everybody mesmerized.

Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.

Elvis was the king. No doubt about it. People like myself, Mick Jagger and all the others only followed in his footsteps.

But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says about 20th-century hero-making.

Everywhere I go, someone stops me and says, 'Oh, you're that guy from 'Terminator 2.'' So, it's something that has, you know, been around me since the movie came out.

You stop anybody on any street, around the world, and they know who Eric Clapton is. They don't know who I am!

There was this moment when we made 'Superunknown': the Seattle music scene had suddenly ended up on an international stage with huge success.

I never saw The Beatles live. I was very aware of them, though.

The friendship I had with Elvis began to take shape in 1968 when I was recording in Memphis. I'd record during the day, and Elvis would send one of his guys over to bring me to Graceland at night. Everything you've heard about Graceland during Elvis's glory days is true and then some.