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

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.

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.

My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me.

Live your life, take chances, be crazy. Dont wait 'cause right now is the oldest you've ever been & the youngest you'll be ever again

…kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.

We live between two dense clouds; the forgetting of what was and the uncertainty of what will be.

No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to.

The girl that I wanna save is like a danger to my health Try being wit somebody that wanna be somebody else.

Homosexuality is genetically hardwired but race and gender are only ideas. OK. Just trying to keep up.

When you train your employees to be risk averse, then you're preparing your whole company to be reward challenged.

The path of least resistance will never make you proud.

The first great work (a task performed by few) Is that yourself may to yourself be true.