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

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

" They say I spend too much money, so they take it and put it away for me. What do I spend it on? Oh, old records and presents and things. "

" I'm the first has-been star singer ever to sing with the circus. I mean, Presley sang with the circus, but that was before he became a star. "

" Believe it or not, I'd love to go to the moon. "

" 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 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. "

" When a person attacks, it's rough. "

" Remember, it's better to be a has-been than a never-was. "

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

" I'm a very difficult person to live with. "

" I knew that someday I would be discovered. "

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

" If the cap ain't on my Crest, if it's squeezed from the middle and not the bottom, there's a problem. "

" Death is never polite, even when we expect it. "

" You sing fast and hope to get out. "

" I saw 'Cynthia' five times. "

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

" I hope I don't give music a bad name. "

" The biggest blunder in the history of this country was when President Truman pulled General MacArthur out of China. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I'm like a pitcher. I'm either on or off. "

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

" My parents had to work hard, and I was always looking for a way to make it big - for their sakes as well as my own. "

" As long as my voice is here, and there is a Holiday Inn waiting for me, then everything's just swell. "