“I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.”

Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.

You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.

To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about.

Once you discover that you can, then you must.

If it’s somebody else’s lyric, and the message is a little unusual for you, it requires that you learn that new message.

I’m walking every day and just staying kind of fit, and try not to have too many bad habits. Keep it minimal.

When you have that light in your eye, that you feel so good, and you’re a pleasant person to be around. “Good morning, sir. Did you find everything that you need?

Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago

It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.

I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.

That’s why it’s so important for people today and during any time to expose your children to lots of different kinds of things.

I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..

I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.

Oh, that’s over in aisle seven. I’ll come help you as soon as,” that’s the stuff. Find something. It could be planting flowers, especially if you can watch it.

I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.

I was crawling around inside of her. She was a church pianist. My dad was a brilliant singer. I was hearing it.

Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.

I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.

Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.

I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.

I grew up in the ’60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn’t that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.

I grew up in and identify with and that she works and exists in.

I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.

I haven’t got any friends from where I grew up, but that’s not to do with fame.