I was so anxious to succeed that I made a practice of appearing on all the disc jockey shows I could, in order to publicize the band.

Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.

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.

On the stage of the Italian Terrace Room in the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1938 ... the place where Champagne Music was born.

I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished yet.

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.