Skiffle was blues featuring a washboard and acoustic instruments. It encompassed blues, with elements of folk, jazz, and, at times, American country-and-western music.

If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.

I'll tell you what does impress me: the fact that a lot of the cats who were our idols are still out there doing it. That impresses me very much.

What I really like to do is just do the twist!

The media is going to stick a label on records. And the public is going to pick it up from that. And that's what I was getting sick of-the whole analyzation thing.

Common one, my illuminated one, oh my high in the art of suffering. Take a walk with me.

[You Got To Make It Through The World] it's kind of a survival song. Survival is what's happening and it's basically a song about that.