I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.

When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.

How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.

I still like my antique clothes.

I don't think I'm tough in a so called tough way. I'm tough on myself.

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

New York critics - I hear when one of them watched "A Star Is Born", he talked back to the screen.