I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.

I didn't realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America.

If I needed to record, I'd head to the coast or Nashville, one or the other.

I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.

Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren't singers, the girls who just tell me that I'm an inspiration to them, for one reason or another.

You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma.

And it wasn't until '84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert tour.

So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work.

None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in.

I never kissed a bear, I've never kissed a goon, but I can shake a chicken in the middle of a room.

I'm still learnin'. I pick up something from every performer I watch.

To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.

The extinction rate is so huge now, we're to the stage where we've got to set up recombinant ecologies. There are no longer enough species left, anywhere, to hold the system together.

As a man I am not a killer. I’m an artist and a modern person. I’ll choose sanity.

I have had a number of less-than-enviable moments in my life when dealing with other people. I won't attempt to blunt that by saying I am not the only one.

What kind of future is in God's plan? A good one to which you can look forward. That's why you can hope.

Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness.

Larry's zombie bag was a nearly virulent green with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on it. I was almost afraid to ask what his vampire bag looked like.

The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality.

Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.

Basically, I learned to read by reading 'Peanuts,' just wanting to know what they were saying.