When I first started I didn't know a lot about the job, so I kinda had to figure it out by wire, ya know? It was hit and miss, I made mistakes, and fortunately I was able to recover from most of 'em. But I promised myself if I ever get to a point where I can help somebody that's trying to learn how to do this, that I would try to do that.

Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes; I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again

Here I am starting a franchise and I'm gonna be 65 years old. I should've started this in 1978... I wrote like 300 songs and I'm gonna have to re-learn some of them!

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Well we're waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard If we behaved So the graduations hang on the wall But they never really helped us at all No they never taught us what was real

Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I'm totally cool.

I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience.