What turns me on is to walk into a sold-out venue. The audiences are so much the same as they were in the '60s. It's just an amazing thing. I can't explain it, but I hope it never stops.

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack go under the limbo stick.

Everybody in the '80s, well, we hate rap. Now, the biggest rapper in the world... Eminem. Rap's a black thing.

I compare the Twist to the electric light, The Twist is me, and Im it. Im the electric light.

Hooka Tooka, my soda cracker, does your momma chaw tobacca?

Wiggle like a stick, wobble like a duck, that's what you do when you do the Hucklebuck.

I want people to look at a checkerboard and think of me!