Well, we all age, but Id been taking herbal supplements for a long time.

I think todays music absolutely stinks. I really do mean that.

Any chance I had to get in front of people - amateur talent contests at movie houses like the Broadway, the president - I took.

Kids know me from their Grease DVD, so they instantly respond. You can hear a pin drop when I do my old songs.

Yes, but I don't think of the Teen Angel as of an age.

I've been around two years shy of 50 years doing what I do. I am a musician.

They weren't great pictures, but they were fun, and they really represented that period of time well.

When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly.

I wound up signing to RCA Victor as a trumpeter, guesting on shows like Jackie Gleason's Honeymooners.

I was not a trained actor.

Our tragedy is their beauty. Our pain is their art. The beatific bereavement that is our life captured on a canvas for all the world to see.

speak from heart to get heard by heart.

How a plain and wagon on Mulberry Street, Grows into a story that no one can beat

A strong mentor can help a young woman find and advance in the career of her dreams that otherwise may have seemed impossible.

I feel it was just a few years ago I was running around in short pants

All my novels are rooted in their time and in their place.

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all the torture of writing.

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

The most precious things in speech are the pauses.

When you're not confident as a young woman in saying "no" or even saying "yes" necessarily, you don't know which one you're more afraid of in some way. That happens a lot.