If you're smart, you'll think twice, when they start to sound off with advice.

There's no job too immense, when you got confidence.

I'll be a fool or a wiseman, my darling, you hold the key. Anyway you want me, that's how I will be.

Do the Clam, do the Clam, grab your barefoot baby by the hand.

I ain't no saint, but I've tried never to do anything that would hurt my family or offend God...I figure all any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs. If I could do or say anything that would give some kid that feeling, I would believe I had contributed something to the world.

When your intelligence don't tell you something ain't right, your conscience gives you a tap you on the shoulder and says 'Hold on'. If it don't, you're a snake.

I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money.