Everyone thinks it’s their song–but how many people really do it their own way ? — Paul Anka

Performing]–i miss that, that’s what i am. that’s why i am. and as long as the health prevails, you know? … this has truly been a blessed journey. — Paul Anka

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. — Paul Anka

Me, bobby darin and a couple of others started in pop music, and we wanted to test ourselves : how are we going to evolve ? — Paul Anka

You know, my grandmother used to say, ‘While I’m down here planning, God’s up there laughing.’ I guess the thing with most things that are worthwhile is that you can’t give up easily. You’ve got to hang in. — Paul Anka

As long as you’re growing in your profession and you’re respected, you’re going to stay as clean as you can, because you’ve got something that you love that you don’t want to lose. — Paul Anka

Diana’–i know it in my sleep, unfortunately, but i still sing it. — Paul Anka

I sent the tapes to los angeles for hIm to meet me there so we could put the rest of the band on. they called me from there a couple of days later and saId, ‘ mr. jackson stole the tapes.’. — Paul Anka

Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace–it lends perspective. — Paul Anka

I just couldn’t get anyone to sing my songs, so I had to sing my own tunes. — Paul Anka

I tell people : I do n’t have a job. I have a passIon. — Paul Anka

I had this talent for these stupid little teenage songs. I just couldn’t get anyone to sing my songs, so I had to sing my own tunes. — Paul Anka

There were times, I’m sure you knew, when I bit off more than I could chew. But through it all, when there was doubt, I ate it up and spit it out. — Paul Anka

Regrets, I’ve had a few but then again too few to mention. And more, much more than this, I did it my way. — Paul Anka

I don’t think you can get an idea of what Israel is like until you get here. People don’t realize what a great place it is. — Paul Anka

I’ve lived a life that’s full, I traveled each and ev’ry highway, And more, much more than this, I did it my way. — Paul Anka

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

I thought It was a s–––record, but there was somethIng In It. — Paul Anka

Things began to pick up for me record–wise when in 1971 I wrote ‘She’s a Lady’ for Tom Jones. — Paul Anka

My father, my mother, and then my father was always on top of me–’Keep your nose clean. Do you love what you’re doing?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Then be aware, or you’re going to lose it.’ — Paul Anka

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. — Paul Anka