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" As long as you're recording and they pay the fee, it's like a lottery ticket. You never stop trying. "

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" Whenever I sang, I said to myself, 'Maybe tonight.' I would never let down, no matter how few people were listening. "

" I remember in '37 when trolley cars were so big in New York. It was five cents for a ride... There used to be open-air buses, and you could go up a spiral staircase and sit up on top. Those were great, great days. "

" When I first went on the 'Johnny Carson show', the band did not want me, and Carson did not want me. If the audience had not received 'Tiptoe' so overwhelmingly, I do not believe Carson would have let me come over to be on the panel after the song. "

" If the club was empty, I sang to the chairs. "

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" I was in Australia in 1983 and did a stunt in a lion's cage. "

" I'm the type of person, I cannot waste time. "

" I always love the smell of a bat and a glove, or a hockey puck in the winter time. "

" The only thing I pray for is the strength to go out without complaining. "

" I don't want people to think lm hypocritical. "

" America lost its face with the debacle of the Vietnam War. "

" I don't know why, but I felt as if I was always behind the eight ball, so to speak. "

" At the start of the '50s, I had short hair. And I was getting nowhere. "

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" I want to get a hit record, and I know I can be good in horror movies. "

" Night after night in the '50s, I traveled all over New York City. The promoter had 10 acts, and the winner each night would get five dollars; second place would get three dollars, and third place would get two dollars. He always put the best acts on last so the people wouldn't walk out, and the worst acts went on first. He always put me on first. "

" I think they should give me a spot on 'Dallas' or 'Dynasty' or one of those shows. "

" I had this old wind-up phonograph when I was a kid, and I'd listen to records. And the radio. "

" Boy George was only 7 years old when I was hot in '68. "

" I had this image before Boy George, before the Beatles, before the Rolling Stones. "

" I keep recording and recording, but they always stay on the rack and never get out there. "

" I don't think I'm turning back the clock by doing these old tunes. I love rock and roll and popular music. It's just that the spirits of the singers whose songs I do are living within me. That's why the songs come out in the voices of the original singers. I'm not doing imitations. That's the way they sound inside me. "

" I believe that President Nixon was right in what he did at Watergate. Lack of respect for authority and things like socialism are turning this into a weak, effeminate country. "

" We've all got setbacks. "

" I read in one of the scandal sheets that there are UFO aliens living right now down deep in the Antarctic. I believe those things. "

" The only thing I think of is the next hit record. "

" In this business, you gotta hustle. "