Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.

I've always felt that blues, rock 'n' roll and country are just about a beat apart.

I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.

Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they're back on the streets. Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.

There's always one more way to do things and that's your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.

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