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A lot has been written and said about why he was so great, but I think the best way to appreciate his greatness is just to go back and play some of the old records. Time has a way of being very unkind to old records, but Elvis' keep getting better and better.

When I was a little kid, I was very impressed with Elvis.

Is Billy Idol just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way?

I always thought that Elvis could have been a great actor, and that he was put in a lot of unimportant movies when he could have done a lot of great ones.

Elvis was rock'n'roll. He came from the poverty and the pain.

When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it's like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically.

I was nuts about Elvis, like every girl in America.

Elvis was, at least the times I was around him, Elvis was a practical joker. He was always, had some little mischievous something going.

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.

I was obsessed with Elvis Presley when I was little.