So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.

Each tomorrow will depend on the love you give today.

If you see me getting smaller, I'm leaving, don't be grieving, just gotta get away from here. If you see me getting smaller, don't worry, and no hurry, I've got the right to disappear.

The only problem was I needed to use my own group, and things didn't happen until I did. It wasn't a real country sound, what I did. I've listened to it, and I think it was more a west coast rock thing, you know? But it fit. It was country, but it was my own interpretation of country.

I could have killed her when we first met and I've been out of jail by now.

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.

He gave us all a mind to think with and to know what's right or wrong, he is that inner spirit that keeps us strong.