Music is the soundtrack of your life.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
If you want to stay young-looking, pick your parents very carefully.
I adhere to my exercise program, which is about 20 minutes a day. I do it seven days a week. I have a little stall in the breezeway of our garage where I have a walking machine, a stair climber, and I do 15 pound weights, and I watch television. Because I hate exercise.
Between Alan Freed in Cleveland and Bob Horn and Lee Stewart in Philadelphia and George 'Hound Dog' Lorenz in Buffalo, they began to find out that white kids liked black music. It was a very significant period of time before I got there.
I'm always distressed by the supposedly bright people who don't know what they are.
First job I had, I was 17 years old. I was primarily the mail room boy at the radio station. An FM station. And in those days, nobody listened to FM.
In Presley's time, you didn't dare not to be a fan of his, because you were part of a club. Now you can say I prefer Billy Joel or Tina Turner or someone else. It's all fractionalized.
I played records, the kids danced, and America watched.
Rock had a huge impact. Anything that the older generation hates is usually loved by kids. Nothing much changes - that still continues today.
Two-thirds of people with diabetes don't realize the seriousness that it can cause their hearts. They don't realize they can have a stroke, drop dead of a heart attack. So you've got to get this thing under control.
I could never turn to a guy and a girl and ask, 'Are you going steady?' That was absolutely a no-no - it was the Eisenhower period, and no parent wanted their kid going steady, so it wasn't a thing that you could endorse as proper behavior on the air.
I have accomplished my childhood dream: to be in show business. Everybody should be so lucky to have their dreams come true. I've been truly blessed.
I had made a great deal of money, and I was proud of it. I was a capitalist.
Personally, I'd like to visit every corner of the earth. But I don't know as I'll ever be able to accomplish that.
Well, I'm using a cane, so what? So what if they shot me sitting in a wheelchair? That's life!
I keep everything. It's one of my problems. I'm a saver.
I was roundly criticized for being in and around rock & roll music at its inception. It was the devil's music: it would make your teeth fall out and your hair turn blue, whatever the hell. You get through that.
It's real good to be back with you again this year.
I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them.
