Paul Anka's Quotes

I've always believed that if you don't stay moving, they will throw dirt on you.

Once you realize that you're in something that you've always wanted and you don't want to lose it, you behave differently. And that means the integrity, the professionalism, and knowing what's right from wrong and still making choices that you probably wouldn't have made.

I had this talent for these stupid little teenage songs.

Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective.

For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels.

I believe in criticism.

I just couldn't get anyone to sing my songs, so I had to sing my own tunes.

I respect Jay-Z. I like him.

My demographic of people have been very supportive.

My family was a good family, I had a great Canadian education and I came up in a great, little town like Ottawa.

The thing is to be able to outlast the trends.

The technology is good and it's bad. You know what you're dealing with out there musically, but my head stops at this electronic stuff. I don't quite know what I'm dealing with out there yet.