Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.

It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.

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.

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.

You don't just go to the studio and say, 'I'm going to write a hit.' It becomes a hit when people like your compositions.

I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?

Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.