I want to sing for the broadest possible audience.

Talking money is crass; so I'm not going to tell you what I made last year.

But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in.

I'm going to continue to talk to the people, because I do believe that if they get to know you and what you are as a human being, they can more appreciate what you are as a performer.

See, I never wrote arrangements for the band for Judy Garland; I did strictly special material, special lyrics, put together all of her medleys.

As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break into the business at the age of four as a singer.

To me, nostalgia is nothing more than a mindless plundering of the past for the commonplace.

Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio.

Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.

I got into radio when I was eight, and I was one of the busiest child dramatic actors in America.

I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album.

If you are faithful in little things, then you will be given a bigger commitment.

The old Televisions had an off switch.

If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.

In the Heaven's above, the angels, whispering to one another, can find, among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of 'Mother.

Sometimes it's good to leave the past in the past.

Im a soulless lawyer. Give me any opinion and I can argue it.

Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.

Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination.

I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.