What I still want from my life is a wholeness that I don't believe Elvis has. I had a conversation with Jerry Lee Lewis years ago, because I always felt he's the man who had these driving dualities. He's either in the church choir or down the strip. There are those extremes that, for Jerry Lee Lewis, seem not to be resolvable. How sweet the sound.
Music is the sound.
Yet people like Jerry Lee find it so hard to resolve these tensions because of the battering they received from the Bible Belt. On the other hand, I've had the experience of unmolested spiritual growth, so I believe I can live in a way that these people can't. That is, to be whole. All of that must have affected him because of his Pentecostal upbringing. And he must've known, instinctively, that when he sang he was touched by the spirit of God.