I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always around me, my parents never pressured me into it.

And singing is a physical thing - your vocal cords are these muscles.

People come and people go, moving fast and moving slow, I'm in a crowd and yet I'm all alone.

I was an entertainer, ever since I was a kid.

My influences were Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is not a public democratic organization; it's a private club basically. It's like a private golf club and they decide who they're going to let in the club.

There was never any pressure on me to go into the business, but I was always aware of it. I'd go on the set with my father and he and my mother would always be singing.