Quotes from Chubby Checker

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

Ever see a little kid walking around talking to himself? I'm the same way.

Hooka Tooka, my soda cracker, does your momma chaw tobacca?

Dancing, apart to music with a beat, is my legacy.

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

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.

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

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.

I want my flowers while I'm alive.

Being on 'Bandstand' was like getting a Nobel Prize. From 3 o'clock in the afternoon until 5:30, nobody was on the street. They were watching 'Bandstand.'

This is my greatest regret - that my music is not being played, and more people aren't seeing Chubby Checker. That's very painful for me. Many nights, I have tears in my eyes about that.

Chubby Checker changed the dance floor.

When you throw your hands up in the air like you just don't care, you're doing 'The Fly' by Chubby Checker!

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

Homey don't quit. What else are you gonna do? It's like those guys in the cartoon they get up in the morning, check the clock and fight all day and after it's over they check the clock and go home. That's how it goes.

Alexander Graham Bell brought us the telephone. He owns the telephones in the buildings. Thomas Edison owns the lightbulb. Whether they took it and did things to improve it, he's the guy. Now on the dance floor, that belongs to Chubby Checker.

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.

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

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.

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.'

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.'

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.

I've got a girl that I love so, hey Loddy Loddy Lo.