I regard singing pretty much like acting. Each song is like playing a different role. I get very involved with my material. I feel a responsibility for the emotion it brings out in the listener.

Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible disease. You can't stop. Of course, I'd like to get off the road.

What are you going to do when you love music? You can't stop.

You should always look like a star. Otherwise people will lose a little of the esteem they have for you.

I learned courage from Buddha, Jesus, Lincoln, Einstein, and Mr. Cary Grant.

If that's all there is, my friends, then let's keep dancing.

One day he went away and I thought I'd die, but I didn't. And I said to myself: 'is that all there is to love?'

I try to project not only a song but a personality.

Is That All There Is?

They weren't really weddings, just long costume parties. (on three of her weddings)

I really don't have that many run-ins. People by and large are very nice to me.

Rest leads to renewal of spirit, soul and strength.

Competition means decentralized planning by many separate persons.

There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even—the French air clears up the brain and does good—a world of good.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.

If we drill the hell out of everything, including protected public lands and fragile regions like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, America can emerge as an 'energy superpower.'

I think the most important thing for me is putting out records that document ideas.

It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.

Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.

I didn't understand that playing roles in any relationship is false and will inevitably lead to the relationship's collapse. No one can be any one thing all the time.