The difficult I'll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.

I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years.

If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you're out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung.

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

You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.

I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.

New Orleans is the only city in the world you go in to buy a pair of nylon stockings they want to know your head size.