There are a lot of people who would laugh at the idea of me being a good singer.

I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.

After 50, the rock 'n' roll road is a little absurd. It's very difficult to play these little places. You're out there on a rickety old bus with no place to shower.

The Columbia years are the most sentimental for me. My parents were together through most of that time and we were a happy, sort of normal family.

I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.

I wasn't accepted because I didn't accept the drug culture that most of my peers were involved in. Now it's like a locked room.

I got married and basically forgot about Elvis. Then Speedway came. That was the most fun of all, to see him every day all those weeks.