I want my flowers while I'm alive.

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.

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.

I want people to see their own power.

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The reason I don't retire is that I learn something new every day. The brain has to be exercised the same as the rest of the body. It's about expanding, constantly pushing yourself.

Forgiveness is always free. But that doesn't mean that confession is always easy. Sometimes it is hard. Incredibly hard. It is painful to admit our sins and entrust ourselves to God's care.

The notes are right, but if I listened they would be wrong.

Because the more you changed, the less of you there was.

It's the familiar love-hate syndrome of seduction: "I don't really care what it is I say, I care only that you like it."

I wanted to try something different. Most people my age go off to college; I thought I'd try out New York.

I guess I considered myself just sort of a sketch comedian, you know? Actual screenwriting hadn't really occurred to me as a viable job - I didn't really know anything about it.