You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth.
When I die, I'd like to come back as a cello.
I've always had great faith in people.
I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.
But one man never laughed. He was a giant among men. He was Bobby Darin and he was my friend.
I have been involved with the USO really my entire life. The first show I did for the USO, I was nine years old.
I love taking chances.
On any given night - there are nights that you feel better. There are nights that you are vocally better. There are nights that you are not as vocally good. No question about it.
I'm better off working as opposed to lying around.
I played Vegas at the age of 16 years old, in 1959.
Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ever done before.
All of our early hits, 'Danke Schoen' and 'Red Roses,' were produced by Bobby Darin.
If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.
I don't really believe in regrets.
I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names.
When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.
There's no room in my life for feeling sorry for myself.
