Before I got in this business I was in the chicken business. |
Besides, at 62 years old I look like I'm about 27. |
Dancing, apart to music with a beat, is my legacy. |
Do you realize that I have had five albums in the Top 30. Elvis and The Beatles have never done that. I had five singles in the Top 5, I mean, no one's ever done that. |
Ever see a little kid walking around talking to himself? I'm the same way. |
God's got something for me. I have faith it'll be OK. |
Here I am the best batting average in the music industry and I'm a bye word in the industry. I really am. Compared to Rod Stewart, I mean, Rod Stewart big deal. I mean, I know he's good and everything, but I played a show two years ago and I had to star under Eddie Money. |
Homey don't quit. What else are you gonna do? It's like those guys in the cartoon they get up in the morning, check the clock and fight all day and after it's over they check the clock and go home. That's how it goes. |
I am the Alexander Graham Bell of the phone company, the Christopher Columbus of America because after 'The Twist' everything changed, ... Watch the films from 1958 up to 1959, and watch American Bandstand during that time. After the song came out, everything was different. |
I compare the Twist to the electric light, The Twist is me, and I'm it. I'm the electric light. |
I want my flowers while I'm alive. |
I want people to look at a checkerboard and think of me! |
I'm just grateful to be on this planet. I have no enemies that I know of. I'm just the guy who makes happy. |
It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy. |
My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old. |