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.

Dancing, apart to music with a beat, is my legacy.

I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn't taught by men - it's a gift from God.

I buy about $1,500 worth of papers every month. Not that I trust them. I'm looking for the crack in the fabric.

I don't plan to return. I have a lot of unresolved things to do.

The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to be fleshed out. The rewrite is very satisfying.

Everything is a work-in-progress.

The fact is I have never been convicted of a crime.

On a good team there are no superstars. There are great players who show they are great players by being able to play with others as a team.

Be blind. Be stupid. Be British. Be careful.

I really didn't say everything I said. [...] Then again, I might have said 'em, but you never know.