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?'

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.

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.

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.

One man's fantasy is another man's reality!

The greater evil who is in-When both in wayward paths are straying? The poor sinner for the painOr he who pays for the sin?

Is true, you do feel better about things the further you run from it

And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature.

Adhesion to one idea is monomania; to few, slavery.

No state at war with another state should engage in hostilities of such a kind as to render mutual confidence impossible when peace will have been made.

I grew up in a place called Malahide, which is by the water and is beautifully quiet, leafy, and part serene.

I was a dog on a short chain / and now there's no chain.

Art has always got more and more extreme, and it will continue to get more and more extreme.

There is a frantic race to merchandise tinsel and trash under the guise of 'modernism.'