Top 17 Quotes by Mac Davis

Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.

I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there.

I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood.

It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record.

I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.

In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.

Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.