I must tell you, to get started today must be very difficult 'cause whatever it takes today is very tough. They have to invest a million dollars in a video just to see if you have a hit record.

The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music.

When I owned the theater, I had the Glen Miller Orchestra. I had 20 girls singing and dancing. I had a cast of characters. It was a big group production, as well as ushers, ticket takers.

Sammy Davis, I backed him up. I used to study him every night. I saw how great performers worked and was able to incorporate a little bit from the best.

I remember Mick Jagger asking me 'hey, how do you guys feel about us coming over here and taking all the play from you guys?' I said 'Well, in a way, you have eliminated all my competition.

All around as a person, on right decisions, on holding your money, on doing your trade, a good education is a must. I don't think I would've done as good without an education.

All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background.

Hey, we've all been to high school We've seen the in-crowds. Most of us have been in the outer crowds, the people who weren't in. Although I was never in, I was selling records and was very happy.

They said hey look, The Beatles deserve to be number one, not Bobby Vinton. We're gonna cut your tires. Change that listing. They were dedicated at the time.

To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it.

To me, there was nothing greater than to play for an audience and to entertain people and that has stayed with me all these years.

A scent of lavender cannot be put into words.

You can't teach children to be good. The best you can do for your child is to live a good life yourself. What a parent knows and believes, the child will lean on.

Deliver thunder, God If you choose not to talk.

For five years I've felt like the best prostitute in a high-class whorehouse. But all the other girls get paid more than I do.

No trouble ever got fixed late at night," he said. "Midnight is for regrets.

I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.

Designing the prints was very much like writing a story with characters, [inspired by] some of my my favorite icons of the time: Eva Perón and Josephine Baker.

Let's put it this way, I like number seven.

People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.

How very hard it is to be a Christian!