Any chance I had to get in front of people - amateur talent contests at movie houses like the Broadway, the president - I took.

I think todays music absolutely stinks. I really do mean that.

Well, we all age, but Id been taking herbal supplements for a long time.

Kids know me from their Grease DVD, so they instantly respond. You can hear a pin drop when I do my old songs.

Yes, but I don't think of the Teen Angel as of an age.

I've been around two years shy of 50 years doing what I do. I am a musician.

They weren't great pictures, but they were fun, and they really represented that period of time well.

When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly.

I wound up signing to RCA Victor as a trumpeter, guesting on shows like Jackie Gleason's Honeymooners.

I was not a trained actor.

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.

The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea.

The great secret in salam is it brings love, tranquility and peace to the person receiving the greeting.

The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence.

One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.

I just want to be a guy with a guitar.

And as we are - the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious, competitive, our society will be competitive, envious, greedy, which brings misery and war. The State is what we are.

I want to minimize the deaths I am responsible for.

The medication, the hormones and the relentless frustrations of our lives make us bitchy and you're not allowed to be bitchy in public or people won't like you.

I've got to live my life the way I feel is right for me. Might not be right for you, but it's right for me.