I am very different in real life as compared to whatever people have seen of me on the big screen.
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
So many kids meet me and they get disappointed. They ask me to wear shades and behave in the way I do in my songs. Then I have to explain it to them that I am like this in real life, more composed, chilled out and cool.
Playing characters who are wonderful and beautiful is hard because you don't feel like that most of the time... well, I don't. It's like this whole heart-throb nonsense. It's flattering, but that's not how I feel in the morning. It's something that goes with the job.
Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.
The way people appear in the gossip papers, as they're depicted as celebrities, it's not often much like who they are. The more people I meet, the more that's true. Sometimes, they're worse.
What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
When I was with Elvis, I used to remind myself there's Elvis on the marquee and then there's the living, breathing Elvis.
With any band, there's two sides - there's the image, and there's the music.
I like the rock documentaries that make it seem real. Some rock documentaries are meant to make the bands look larger than life.
Hollywood is portrayed in this super glamorous way, but when I see pictures of actresses going off the rails, it doesn't surprise me at all.
