Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.

I didn't aim at anything except good music.

They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.

I'm old and crazy, but I still give a damn. And I still think the boys got screwed over in Vietnam.

Did ole Hank really do it this way?

I might be an endangered species.

Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.