From the Book - First American edition.
"Well, the bear shall be gentle"
"Don't you worry none, Mama"
"I would just sit there in class"
"I don't sound like nobody"
"What the hell y'all doin' in there?"
"What happened, what happened?"
"Doesn't everybody love their parents?"
"That Colonel . . . he's the Devil himself"
"I'm like a Mississippi bullfrog"
"Why should music contribute to juvenile delinquency?"
"The colored folks have been singing and playing"
"Imagine! A Memphis boy with Natalie Wood"
"I hate to get started in these jam sessions"
"I wish we was poor again"
"Hang up your pretty stocking"
"This rancid-smelling aphrodisiac, rock and roll"
"I'm lucky to be in a position to give"
"The world is more alive at night"
"There was a little girl that I was seeing"
"Whatever I become, will be what God has chosen for me"
"I didn't have any say-so in it all"
The schoolgirl who carried a derringer in her bra
"If we can control sex . . ."
"The only thing worse than watching a bad movie"
"If you guys are just going to sit and stare"
"I know that I'm a joke in this town"
"Some of you maybe think that Elvis is Jesus Christ"
"What am I going to do if they don't like me?"
"And what was I thinking?"
"I want musicians who can play every kind of music"
"I don't want some sonofabitch crazy bastard"
"Mr. President, you got your show to run"
"It's very hard to live up to an image"
"Sorry that I didn't break his goddamned neck"
"If you want me to leave"
"I'd rather be unconscious than miserable"
"I'm self-destructive, I know"
"I get carried away very easily"
"I don't know who to talk to anymore"
"I'm just so tired of being Elvis Presley"