#ray walker

"Someone at the office asked me what my one wish about Elvis would be if I knew it could be true. I said I would wish he could be around long enough to know how people really loved him. Him. Not his music, not his life, not his image. Him. The person wondered how I would know that, and I said, 'Look, when Elvis Presley got so big, the young ones from fourteen on down loved him—little babies too—and the grandmothers and granddaddies. They were the ones that weren't afraid of him. They were the ones that really knew him.' And that's true. I have never felt him gone at all."