Besides, at 62 years old I look like I'm about 27.

I want people to look at a checkerboard and think of me!

Before I got in this business I was in the chicken business.

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.

Hooka Tooka, my soda cracker, does your momma chaw tobacca?

Wiggle like a stick, wobble like a duck, that's what you do when you do the Hucklebuck.

I want my flowers while I'm alive.

God's got something for me. I have faith it'll be OK.

You wave your hands up to the sky, kick your legs to the side. Are you ready, let's do the Freddie.

I compare the Twist to the electric light, The Twist is me, and Im it. Im the electric light.

His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerge charred doves.

My window fogs and this makes me feel like there is no world outside of the car.

If we knew what type of jobs would exist in 20 years, we would be quite rich. But we just cannot visualize it.

You’re mine, Isabeau. You’ll always be mine. Make no mistake about it. Whether you choose to forgive me and give us a second chance, or you don’t, you’ll be my only.

It's disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate.

Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can't survive...it's the thing that makes you better than you used to be.

I don't know what to do. I only know that it's taken me years to understand that life was pushing me in a direction I didn't want to go in.

You can never take the violence back.

I've always been quite shy. Very confident but very shy.

I couldn’t get the words exactly right; I only remembered wishing that Jacob were my brother so that we could love each other without any confusion or pain.