I called it Rockabilly 'cause I was rocking the strums, which you're not supposed to do.

I've been performing since 1955. I'm going to have to keep performing till I die because I'm not going to die in some rocking chair with a big ol' beer belly.

There's a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around.

Little Richard, he'd say, 'Oh Dick Dale! You have luscious lips!'

Whatever you do, don't take shortcuts. It's great advice to take and live by.

I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests' books.