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

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.

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

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.

Just as one goes on a fast or a body cleanse you owe it to yourselves to detox your mind, it will not be easy but easy never yielded lasting results.

The days were sunny, the nights were star-studded. Indeed married life was strawberries for breakfast and loving all the time.

The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce.

There would have been more 'I love you's' and more, 'I'm sorry's'.

Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece.

A person has to keep something to herself or you're life is just a layout in a magazine.

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

You are responsible for what you have done and the people whom you have influenced.

No one ever gets tired of loving. But everyone gets tired of waiting, assuming, hearing lies, and hurting.

The act is judged of by the event.