[Dean Martin] is an absolute, unqualified drunk. And if we ever develop an Olympic drinking team, he's gonna be the coach... Dean Martin has been stoned more often than the United States embassies.

The best is yet to come, and won't that be fine? You think you've seen the sun, but you ain't seen it shine.

The record shows, I took the blows . And did it my way.

Rock 'n roll smells phony and false. It is sung, played and written for the most part by cretinous goons and by means of its almost imbecilic reiteration and sly, lewd, in plain fact, dirty lyrics ... manages to be the martial music of every side-burned delinquent on the face of the earth.

You've either got or you haven't got style, and if you've got it you stand out a mile.

Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing - if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.

Don't respond to negativity with more negativity. Just put your head down and prove your critics wrong.