That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

Everything starts from something but something would be nothing if your heart didn't dream with me.

Produce your own dream. It's quite possible to do anything, but not if you put it on the leaders and the parking meters.

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

A lot of my songs are fantasy. I can dream up all kinds of things. That's the kind of world I live in. It's very sort of flamboyant, and that's the kind of way I write. I love it.