I don't believe any more in democracy. But I can't believe in the old sort of aristocracy, either, nor can I wish it back, splendid as it was. What I believe in is the old Homeric aristocracy, when the grandeur was inside a man, and he lived in a simple wooden house.
Sam Phillips always encouraged me to do it my way, to use whatever other influences I wanted, but never to copy. . . if there hadn't been a Sam Phillips, I might still be working in a cotton field.