Everything is explained now. We live in an age when you say casually to somebody 'What's the story on that?' and they can run to the computer and tell you within five seconds. That's fine, but sometimes I’d just as soon continue wondering. We have a deficit of wonder right now.

There's a beauty of show business. It's the only business you can have a career in when you're dead.

when your down on your luck and you've lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans

I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.

Presley's what I go by, why don't you change the station.

The sight of the first woman in the minimal two-piece was as explosive as the detonation of the atomic bomb by the U.S. at Bikini Island in the Marshall Isles, hence the naming of the bikini.

My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult.