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 always bring my little ukelele along in my shopping bag which my dear, sweet father bought me. After all, you just never know when a song might come along.
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.
The only thing I pray for is the strength to go out without complaining.
I am ready for anything that happens.
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.
One day in 1952, I woke up with a high voice.
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.
I don't believe in Women's Liberation. No, no, no, no, no. Not at all.
I don't believe in birth control.
I'm a very difficult person to live with.
The only thing I think of is the next hit record.
If the cap ain't on my Crest, if it's squeezed from the middle and not the bottom, there's a problem.
I want to get a hit record, and I know I can be good in horror movies.
The devil reigns in me more than in any man I can think of.
I always wanted to be a big star.
