It was very important to establish a sound, so that people heard a record on the radio and knew immediately that it was you.

Grease is the word, is the word that you heard, It's got groove, its got feeling.

I grew up beyond proud - we didnt have much, but we had a lot of love.

Pardon the way that I stare, there's nothing else to compare. The sight of you leaves me weak, there are no words left to speak.

You can take the guy out of the neighborhood but you can't take the neighborhood out of the guy.

I do belong to Jersey. There's no doubt about that in my mind. They have been so loyal and so good to me, how could I possibly belong any place else?

At long last love has arrived, and I thank God I'm alive. You're just too good to be true, can't take my eyes off of you.

I spent many a summer early morning with the radio very low, half sleeping and half listening.

I dont play golf or tennis, I dont ski, I dont snowboard. If you love what you do, you never get enough of it.

I'm going to be as big as Sinatra.

I always believed a singer should be able to sing any kind of song. If I wanted to sing a Cole Porter song, I should be able to do that. Or Sherry, I should be able to do that. Or a Dylan song.

We can make our own plans and judge them by our narrow expectations, or we can experience life as the boundless reality of the One who created it.

ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection.

I think it's important to have professional lessons or advice.

It's nice, when the lights come up at the end of the movie, to not be like, "What did I just watch?"

If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.

For myself, the Creek satisfies a thing that had gone hungry and unfed since childhood days. I am often lonely. Who is not? But I should be lonelier in the heart of a city.

I'm usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours.

You need to know that you are a spiritual being so that you can do helpful things to allow your innate qualities to unfold and express.

If somebody wants to have plastic surgery, more power to them. I think there's a point where you go overboard.

All flows out from the Deity, and all must be absorbed in Him again.