All dope can do for you is kill you... the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.

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.

God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.

I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.

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

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

I think I copied my style from Louis Armstrong. Because I used to like the big volume and the big sound that Bessie Smith got when she sang ... So I liked the feeling that Louis got and I wanted the big volume that Bessie Smith got. But I found that it didn't work with me, because I didn't have a big voice. So anyway between the two of them I sorta got Billie Holiday.