“Once you discover that you can, then you must.”

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.

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

I watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.

My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time.

I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.

I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.

Painting, I think it’s like jazz.

The French – they like jazz, theyve been on jazz a long time.

I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards – Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.

I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn’t place myself on that footing. I wouldn’t even enter that arena.

I’m not a jazz singer.

The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it.

I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend’s driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates.

Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods.