It's only a thimbleful of a voice, and I have to use it close to the microphone. But it is a kind of oversmoked voice, and it automatically sounds intimate.

I do everything all wrong, but I think for me that's the best, because I don't think I have a voice.

Sometimes you kind of lose yourself in someone else's personality.

I think any entertainer just sort of goes along with whatever comes along.

If it's an excellent script, I enjoy it tremendously, the acting part of it.

I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything.

If it's a terrible script, it's a terrible bore.

I think that's one of the most difficult things in any marriage - in order to build anything, you must be together. You can't build anything over the telephone.

I prefer the things around town. I'm not one for going out of town too much.

The acting was first. As a teenager I was an actress; and then I came back as a singer.

[If homes belongs to couples or roommates]: I think homes should reflect the individuals and their individual taste rather than someone else's.

ALL that man has touched, will be used... For both Good and evil. Such is the way of the world.

Christmas is over and Business is Business.

It would be good for the workers in Vietnam even as it helps make sure that they're not undercutting competition here in the United States.

A failed personal experience is just fear and anxiety.

I'm trying to suggest a kind of Middle Earth, in Tolkien terms. It's a contiguous world; it's like ours but different.

All art is subversive.

Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.

Hotness is uniqueness and just being yourself - that's hot.

One of my biggest superstitions is to never speak about the future out loud. Lets just say I got a lot out there and I hope to keep on going.

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.