"Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or…"

"I'm not saying we're better or greater, or comparing us to Jesus Christ as a person, or God as a thing or whatever it is. I just said 'more popular' and that's the fact."

"Ritual is important. The wedding ceremony is a ritual that is very important. It's a statement."

"I'm a working-class hero. A real working-class hero."

"Before Elvis, there was nothing."