I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.

• More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.
• Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.
• I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.
• When I get married, it'll be no secret.
• I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money.
• When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.
• Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.
• The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.
• I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.
• Those movies sure got me into a rut.