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.

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

It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.

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

Rock is my child and my grandfather.

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