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

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.

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.

Leaders inspire the people around them to become better.

Death is but a doorway to another path.

Over and over, we begin again.

Power and speed aren't enough to overcome someone who is strategic, who knows what you'll do before you do it and can turn it on you; someone who is mentally engaged and combines the whole package.

So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.

Many people know how to criticize, but few know how to praise.

It is not the criminals who arouse the hatred of others, but the men who are honest.

I was a James Brown junkie as a kid.

We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game.

The decisions of the courts on economic and social questions depend on their economic and social philosophy.