Chubby Checker

“I hope that I am out of the music business when I meet God.”

“It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy.”

“When I go on stage, I'm a different man. I become Chubby Checker, And when I'm not Chubby Checker, I'm preparing to be him.”

“The only difference between The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Aerosmith, and Chubby Checker is that they get their music played on the radio.”

“God's got something for me. I have faith it'll be OK.”

“Of all the '60s - there was Elvis, there was the Beatles, there was the British invasion, Jimmy Hendrix, and Woodstock - the No. 1 record was 'The Twist.'”

“I'm just grateful to be on this planet. I have no enemies that I know of. I'm just the guy who makes happy.”

“Michael Jackson is the most awesome person who ever walked onstage. He was just incredible.”

“When I hear 'The Twist,' sometimes I hear it, and I go, 'Wow - I really did that song. It could have been anybody, but it was me. Isn't that great.'”

“People don't do the Macarena together. Or if they do, they do it to get closer, to get together. It's the same thing with the Electric Slide.”

“What I bring to the stage is humility.”

“I was 17 or 18 when 'The Twist' came along, and the rest is history. Sometimes I regret it. I would have gotten more into acting. I would have been more of a legitimate performer onstage like Liza Minnelli. But I got so caught up in the dance thing that I never got into theater.”

“By 11th grade, I was in show business as a professional.”

“Do you go to gym and exercise to music? Before Chubby Checker, that never happened.”

“I want to play main rooms in Vegas. I want to play every day like Elvis did, not just weekends.”

“Do you realize that I have had five albums in the Top 30. Elvis and The Beatles have never done that. I had five singles in the Top 5, I mean, no one's ever done that.”

“When I play in Atlantic City, I perform Tuesdays through Sundays for two weeks, and I have 91-percent attendance. No one else plays six days a week, two shows per night, and does that kind of business.”

“Everybody in the '80s, well, we hate rap. Now, the biggest rapper in the world... Eminem. Rap's a black thing.”

“I love food, and the food industry is huge, and I just love dealing in it.”

“Besides, at 62 years old I look like I'm about 27.”