"When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly."
"Rocco paid me 35 bucks a week at Murray's Inn in South Jersey. People started asking Rocco to have me sing."
"No sooner than I did take it seriously, I had million-selling hits and movies with John Wayne."
"Kids know me from their Grease DVD, so they instantly respond. You can hear a pin drop when I do my old songs."
"I was not a trained actor."
"I learned not to blink in a close-up or move your head at all, because if you did, they wouldn't use it."
"I'll be 65 in September and I work as much as I want to, take cruises with Kay, relax with my family, do everything in moderation, because I want to enjoy my life."
"Well, we all age, but I'd been taking herbal supplements for a long time."
"I've been around two years shy of 50 years doing what I do. I am a musician."
"They weren't great pictures, but they were fun, and they really represented that period of time well."
"I think today's music absolutely stinks. I really do mean that."
"These kids today, everything is about hitting a vocal home run."
"They look for the top note to end every song. They don't know what they are singing about. There is no style."
"Yes, but I don't think of the Teen Angel as of an age."
"I like that because the fans want to see onstage what they know so well from the big screen."
"I wish I could talk to Annette, but she doesn't even correspond at this point."
"It captures a lot of the spirit of the '50s."
"The kids have all seen it on DVD or videotape."
"'Grease' is the most successful thing I've ever been part of. It spans generations."
"If I go to a restaurant, or if I'm at an airport and people recognize me, it amazes me that most of them know me from 'Grease.'"
"I was trying to become a legitimate trumpet player, and I had a scholarship to Eastman School of Music. I was really on my way. But I didn't take the scholarship. I got sidetracked, because when summers came around, I started playing with a rock-and-roll band."
"I studied with Seymour Rosenfeld, who was first trumpeter of the Philadelphia Orchestra."
"I love Billy Joel's music, but let's put it this way - I think this is a frustrated, ugly man."
"If you watch 'American Idol,' and you close your eyes, you don't know who's singing because they all sound exactly alike."
"I'm not a chef: I'm a cook."
