My life has been one long descent into respectability.

He would, wouldn't he?

I am notorious. I will go down in history as another Lady Hamilton.

My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it.

Vision without Mission is Lame

I bought a Ferrari...and then sold it after a couple of months.

I've been used for writing rhythm guitar chords for a long time because it's so easy to play and chords just sound good on it.

My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago.

A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends?

The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.

And to thy husband's will Thine shall submit; he over thee shall rule.

I don't call myself an artist. I act. That's what I do.

People don't know the consolations of being unsuccessful ... If I had been successful I should have had no peace or time.