Whatever title you want to lay on me is fine. I am still working; you know what I'm saying?

My father had a couple of Mitch Miller records and a Spike Jones record, and that was it. My older brother had two or three Elvis Presley singles, and that was about it. The rest of it I did on my own.

I'm a big Marty Robbins fan. I love Marty Robbins. Of course, everybody does. That's not such a big shock.

This music has been around since before the beard on Moses. I happed to do it very well and I happen to have a lot of groovy songs that I know people are going to dig. I know more about it than you do.

You can't rely on luck. I've had some stages in my career where I've said we're going to wing it, and we've always ended up in trouble.

On the day I was born, the nurses gathered around, to gaze in wide wonder at the joy they had found.

I know I'm not going to sing like Aretha Franklin or Elvis Presley or any of those people.