In spite of the Depression, or maybe because of it, folks were hungry for a good time, and an evening of dancing seemed a good way to have it.

To be granted some kind of usable talent and to be able to use it to the fullest extent of which you are capable - this, to me, is a kind of joy that is almost unequaled.

Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.

I like clean ladies and nice ladies.

The ones the listeners loved most of all in those early years were the four Lennon girls who became the whole nation's little sisters.

I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.

I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.