GENE PITNEY

No it isn't very pretty, what a town without pity can do.

I always feel that it's great when you can be happy when you're by yourself. That's not a bad thing.

I'm a performer. I've tried everything there is.

When the world outside my arms is pulling us apart, press your lips to mine and hold me with your heart.

Only love can break a heart, only love can mend it again.

You have 'listeners' ears' when you're just starting out, and your 'listeners' ears' tell you what will work. You lose those ears later, when you break songs down into production elements too much.

The thing I always liked best about touring abroad was constantly running into different people, different cultures, different foods. It really pumped up my batteries... I'm constantly playing to a demographically diverse audience... one generation is driven by nostalgia, the next by curiosity. And that's why I have no plans to retire.

True love never runs smooth, that's what they say, but true love is worth all the pain.

I was just different. When the other kids gravitated to football or basketball, I went fishing and skating. I was into trapping animals, pheasants and squirrels. Not only was I trapper, I was a taxidermist.

Let's say I'm not feeling well, and somebody would say to me, 'Just do an easy show, just go out and do a light...' - I can't! I cannot do that kind of a show. I have to still put 150 percent into it, and it's funny: it's so healing to do that.

I was just different. When the other kids gravitated to football or basketball, I went fishing and skating. I was into trapping animals, pheasants and squirrels. Not only was I trapper, I was a taxidermist.

The thing I always liked best about touring abroad was constantly running into different people, different cultures, different foods. It really pumped up my batteries... I'm constantly playing to a demographically diverse audience... one generation is driven by nostalgia, the next by curiosity. And that's why I have no plans to retire.

Let's say I'm not feeling well, and somebody would say to me, 'Just do an easy show, just go out and do a light...' - I can't! I cannot do that kind of a show. I have to still put 150 percent into it, and it's funny: it's so healing to do that.

People tell me all the time that I must be so sad. I never was. It's just the way I sing.

You have 'listeners' ears' when you're just starting out, and your 'listeners' ears' tell you what will work. You lose those ears later, when you break songs down into production elements too much.

I'm a performer. I've tried everything there is.

I always feel that it's great when you can be happy when you're by yourself. That's not a bad thing.

True love never runs smooth, that's what they say, but true love is worth all the pain.

Each morning I face her window and pray that our love can be, cause that brownstone house where my baby lives is Mecca.

When the world outside my arms is pulling us apart, press your lips to mine and hold me with your heart.

No it isn't very pretty, what a town without pity can do.

Only love can break a heart, only love can mend it again.