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.

Up come a flat top, he was movin' up with me.

Don't bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I'm almost grown.

Everything I wrote about wasn't about me, but about the people listening.

My ding-a-ling, my ding-a-ling, won't you play with my ding-a-ling.

Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering "who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo?"

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