I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.

progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.

When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.

I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.

My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it's like awards don't mean anything.

I want the best product for my audience, and if I don't care 100%, who will? It's my name, my likeness that goes out there.

I can say, 'I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable.' Or I could say, 'Get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?'