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

It was like he came along and whispered some dream in everybody's ear, and somehow we all dreamed it.

I wanted to say to Elvis Presley and the country that this is a real decent, fine boy.

There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king.

I look back at bands like the Small Faces, the Yardbirds, Free, the Byrds -- what came out of those bands? If you look at the family trees of some of the Briti…

Disco is James Brown, hip-hop is James Brown, rap is James Brown; you know what I'm saying?

'You can't ignore what some bands have done. I know that from my own experience, from the way my life was changed by 'Fuck Armageddon, This Is Hell' by Bad Rel…