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.

Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.

Prejudice doesn't make me mad. It just - I guess 'pisses me off' is the word.

Actually I'm writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live.

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

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.

Rock is my child and my grandfather.