If a man can tell if he's been successful in his life by having great friends, then I have been very successful.

I don't need much more money, and I thought that when I retired that nobody would want to talk to me anymore. Then I did, and people still want to talk to me.

I was the one who was always scowling, downcast. I tried to make sure I looked like that when I was getting my picture taken.

If I didn't like someone, I wouldn't want him calling me up when I was dying. I wouldn't want them having regrets that they didn't talk to me.

A lot of kids bought guitars and started playing rock'n'roll because of us.

Two of my biggest heroes were my father and John Wayne.

When I was younger, I was ready to go off at any time. My wife, Linda, and I would go out to the Limelight in New York, and I would see people and be able to freeze them with a look. People were even too scared of me to tell me that people were scared of me.