Looking hard for a drive in, searching for a corner cafe, where the hamburgers sizzle on an open grill night and day.

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.

A song is a song. But there are some songs, ah, some songs are the greatest. The Beatles song Yesterday. Listen to the lyrics.

If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you've got something they want to hear.

All in all it was my intention to hold both the black and the white clientele by voicing the different kinds of songs in their customary tongues.

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

All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.