I'm the only instrument that's got the words, so I've got to be able to get that across.

So you see, you can't do everything alone.

I'll keep working as long as I live because singing has taken on the feeling of joy that I had when I started, when my only responsibility was to sing well.

No matter how great a man is, the size of his funeral usually depends on the weather.

When Bob came through Cincinnati, he wanted a girl singer to be on his show. There was a local contest, and my sister and I entered, but Bob said, Gee, I wouldn't break up the team.

I loved downers, almost any kind. Loved the colors of them. Loved them yellow... I did. I would just have a bouquet in my hands at night.

I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations.

I remember Mitch Miller saying every week, This rock and roll stuff will never last. But one doesn't like to bring that up to Mitch.

Have a scaffold erected in the square. We shall hang a traitor or two before dinner. And perhaps afterwards as well.” - Princess Karena

Love sometimes makes people ruthless in a way that not even hatred can.

I've always been fascinated by weather.

As I got older, I got into all kinds of things in the streets - but for some reason, I never got caught up with the gangs growing up. Everybody dug me, man. I never had problems.

Better to admit where you're not and ask God's help to get you where you need to be.

A good liar must have a good memory. Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory.

Those that we love never alter, unless we cease to love them.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

Give yourself time to get better.

This external worship of images has, however, been described in all our Shastras as the lowest of all the low forms of worship. But that does not mean that it is a wrong thing to do.