When Johnson started singing, he seemed like a guy who could have sprung from the head of Zeus in full armor.

It's great having Bruce Springsteen on my show. We have so much in common! We're both from New Jersey, just from different neighborhoods. Sort of like how Martin Luther King and Margaret Mitchell both came from Atlanta. But from different neighborhoods.

It's good to be the king.

I could see it. I could almost feel it. When I proclaimed that I was the greatest of all time, I believed in myself, and I still do.

when he came in. I liked that guy.

But I have heard it said,” said Don Quixote, “that troubles take wing for the man who can sing.

I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.

No, I don't understand him, but he is worth listening to.

Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.

Certainly, I thought, Dion means to have his way. But I suppose that's what makes a king.

It is something, I thought, when a king can put a courtesan to the blush.

So we got hold of him and cracked him with a few good horrorshow tolchocks, but he still went on singing.

That was something of a revelation to me, that a young man could be kind.

I was a swell guy. I enjoyed being me.