Judy Garland was the singer I most wanted to sound like then, not to copy, but to get some of her soul and purity. A wonderful young voice.

There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste.

There are notes between notes, you know.

I am not a special person. I am a regular person who does special things.

My dream is to do whatever I want without any interference from the record company.

What was the competition? Well, I remember this Puerto Rican who came out in a short skirt and a gun.

They always ask me the same questions. Where was I born? When did I start singing? Who have I worked with? I don't understand why they can't just talk to me without all that question bit.

I'm not heart-broken if I don't have a hit. But I guess a hit would help. It makes the money go up a bit.

I don't feel like a big star.

I just don't understand why those who fail to listen to others possess a habitual desire to be listened to.

Everybody can't be like Redford and pop out there and make big bucks right away because you look like a Greek god... The guy's a friend of mine and he has absolutely no privacy in his life.

No metaphysician has yet shaken the ordinary individual's belief in his own existence. The uncertainties only begin for most of us when we ask what else is.

Everyone is a flux - so it's good to suspend judgements forever.

If people want new music then they are going to have to figure out a way to be patrons of the arts. And they will.

True faith always produces real conformity to Christ.

I can only say I wish I had slept with everyone I am accused of.

The insides of our own minds are the scariest things there are.

I've always loved the Sangha. I have the deepest, deepest respect for them. I'm very sorry that in the West people don't appreciate what the monastic order is about.

Practice being the kind of person you wish to attract.