Quotes from Tiny Tim

As long as those pretty girls notice me, I don't care if they say, 'Ghastly, horrible'... I live for the beautiful angels.

I read in one of the scandal sheets that there are UFO aliens living right now down deep in the Antarctic. I believe those things.

My parents had to work hard, and I was always looking for a way to make it big - for their sakes as well as my own.

As long as you're recording and they pay the fee, it's like a lottery ticket. You never stop trying.

I keep recording and recording, but they always stay on the rack and never get out there.

I'm the first has-been star singer ever to sing with the circus. I mean, Presley sang with the circus, but that was before he became a star.

When I first went on the 'Johnny Carson show', the band did not want me, and Carson did not want me. If the audience had not received 'Tiptoe' so overwhelmingly, I do not believe Carson would have let me come over to be on the panel after the song.

The devil reigns in me more than in any man I can think of.

I want to get a hit record, and I know I can be good in horror movies.

Boy George was only 7 years old when I was hot in '68.

There are a lot of ups and downs. But there are always people who have it worse.

Whenever I sang, I said to myself, 'Maybe tonight.' I would never let down, no matter how few people were listening.

They say I spend too much money, so they take it and put it away for me. What do I spend it on? Oh, old records and presents and things.

Believe it or not, Id love to go to the moon.

Remember, it's better to be a has-been than a never-was.

In this business, you gotta hustle.

Better to marry unhappily 100 times than to live happily forever in sin.

I knew that someday I would be discovered.

In order to have a TV series, you have to have a good idea for the story.

I think they should give me a spot on 'Dallas' or 'Dynasty' or one of those shows.

If the cap ain't on my Crest, if it's squeezed from the middle and not the bottom, there's a problem.

I remember in '37 when trolley cars were so big in New York. It was five cents for a ride... There used to be open-air buses, and you could go up a spiral staircase and sit up on top. Those were great, great days.

At the start of the '50s, I had short hair. And I was getting nowhere.

I had this image before Boy George, before the Beatles, before the Rolling Stones.