TINY TIM

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

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.

I was trying to find an original style that didn't sound like Tony Bennett or anyone else. So I prayed about it, woke up with this high voice, and by 1954, I was going to amateur nights and winning.

As long as my voice is here, and there is a Holiday Inn waiting for me, then everything's just swell.

I hope I don't give music a bad name.

I saw 'Cynthia' five times.

Believe it or not, I'd love to go to the moon.

Don't bury me with anyone old.

Death is never polite, even when we expect it.

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.

I knew that someday I would be discovered.

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

We hear about the Gershwins, the Kerns, and the Berlins, but there were some great little writers like Theodore Morse, Charles K. Harris, and Ernest R. Ball, who wrote 'Let the Rest of the World Go By.'

I'm a very difficult person to live with.

I'm the type of person, I cannot waste time.

You sing fast and hope to get out.

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

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

It was not easy to go into a subway in 1955 at eight o'clock in the morning smelling nice and hanging on the rails with white make-up. I could see people nudging each other saying, 'What is that?'

I don't know why, but I felt as if I was always behind the eight ball, so to speak.

America lost its face with the debacle of the Vietnam War.

I'm like a pitcher. I'm either on or off.

I always love the smell of a bat and a glove, or a hockey puck in the winter time.

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

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.