Del Shannon quotes:

There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.

I laughed at Willie Nelson, wondering why he spends all his life on that tour bus. And I look at myself, and I'm sitting in airplanes half the time.

I usually write when I'm in a great place. When I'm depressed, I don't usually write. So I take all of when I'm depressed and throw it into when I'm feeling good. Weird, I guess.

I was an outcast growing up with a bunch of Christian people. My father didn't go to church, and that was not good news if you lived right in the middle of it.

I love to perform. But I don't like the traveling.

When I was 20, I was drinking. When I was 30, I was drinking more, and at 40, way too much.

If it's a whole show of my own, I'll do more of what I think Del Shannon is. But for shows like Disneyland, I'll just do mainly hits. That's what they want to hear. I don't want to bore people. If I wanted that much to play nothing but 12 new songs, then I should go do it in a bar somewhere for peanuts.

I eat ice cream. It's better than booze.

Here she comes that little town flirt, you're falling for her and you're gonna get hurt.

I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.

I wonder why why why why why why, she ran away?

Nobody keeps a cat. They condescend to live with you is all.

Hard to guess what people see in each other, fortunately for the continued existence of the human race.

It's curious how many people are ready to believe that the highest prices guarantee the best value.