Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.

They think they can make fuel from horse manure - now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.

I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel.

I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.

There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.