I'm always happy when I'm cleaning, and besides, I had just found out that I was going to have a baby.

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.

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?'

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)

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

i dunno," i said, "but i have an idea that people who don't think too much tend to look younger longer

Anyone who doesn't sing and dance at every opportunity is missing out on the joy of life.

Quick believers need broad shoulders.

We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.

Becoming the reader is the essence of becoming a writer.

Anarchism misunderstands the real nature of man. It would be practicable only in a world of angels and saints

The only way to win happiness is to give it. The more we give, the more we have.

Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts.

If you bleed Black Label and you're going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be.