Brother, if you want to get the lowdown, Come along and let's all have a hoedown.

John Lennon was very irreverent and very intelligent.

I still sing because I love the sound of applause, because it's who I am, and because I still can.

The amazing thing is that I'm sane. I'm not bitter. I'm not drugged out. I'm not broke. I'm still married to the same guy. My children don't hate me.

I only wish Chet Atkins could be here for this joyous occasion.

I've spent an awful lot of my time in the air. I've had everything happen to me in a plane that could happen. Except a crash.

I was nuts about Elvis, like every girl in America.

I gave up my childhood for a career.

I believe I became one of the first singers to be launched via television exposure. I guess I was a new kind of musical stylist for a new kind of media.

The music business can be very cold. And it doesn't honor its elders.

I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on.

Foolishly romantic, yeah, sure, maybe: but she'd rather have dreams of Prince Charming than the reality of Mr. Wrong.

When stars come out to play, I find it hard to get you off my mindSoI wrote this

Once an opinion is formed, there will be attachment-abhorrence. A person without opinion is also without attachment-abhorrence.

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

Jimmy Snuka stood up, 25 feet in the air, drove his knee through my ribs, but did I allow them to carry me out on a strecher? NO! I got right up and walked out!

I am not interested only in telling a story, but I want to tell it my way. I don't want my accent, my temperament, my narrative style to be compromised to fit into a mold of the Hollywood type.

I have to admit I've always had quite a complex relationship with modeling and with the idea of advertising: not always knowing what I'm advertising and selling.

I must make a choice every time I speak a sentence in English. I try to choose the happier way of saying things, so that my own words will not weigh me down like stones.

People who move to New York always the same mistake. They can't see the place.

An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys.