And I was booked once to go on 'Ed Sullivan' and I got bumped and ran out the back door crying.

Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even more.

And I've been hurt hurt bad. I might be just twenty-six, but I'm an old woman in disguise twenty-six goin'on sixty-five.

I saw the Supremes when they were still singing in little black skirts and white blouses.

My heart is still there in gospel music. It never left . . . I'm gonna make a gospel record and tell Jesus I cannot bear these burdens alone.

I love 'Anne of Green Gables.' I have for years. That's one of my favourite things. She's such a can-do kind of girl; that's why I'm crazy about her.

I love to sing. It's just a natural thing for me.