My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.

Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.

Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don't know how mean she looks.

Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.

When I was a kid I used to scoot under the table, and whenever company would come around you know or my sisters or parents would tell me, go under the table and I'd do it because it was entertainment for the family or aunts or whatever. And one time at the Paramount when I first did it, you know, Brooklyn Paramount, I did it in the act during an instrumental and it got a big ovation and so I coined it as one of the things I should do in the act. And since I've been doing it.

Praise doesn't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself.

A contract is an ask game, and if it asks for an hour, and I submit to an hour, then it's an hour. When I look at a contract, I look at the obligation - where, when, how long, the compensation. If I agree to it, that's the way it is. I have an obligation. They have an obligation.