It's always disappointing when people decide for one reason or another that they don't like your work anymore, but you can't try to please people, because then you're just going to be doing - you'll never live it down, y'know it'll always be dogging you around - you might be being a fake about the whole thing.

Lay down the song you strum, And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings No voice can hope to hum.

I hate myself for loving you and the weakness that it showed. You were just a painted face on a trip down to suicide road.

Technology to wipe out truth is now available. Not everybody can afford it but it's available. When the cost comes down, look out!

A lot of people don't have much food on their table. But they got a lot of forks 'n knives. And they got to cut somethin'.

You're gonna have to serve somebody.

People talk about Frank Sinatra all the time - and they should talk about Frank - but he had the greatest arrangers. They worked for him in a different kind of way than they worked for other people. They gave him arrangements that are just sublime on every level. And he, of course, could match that because he had this ability to get inside of the song in a sort of a conversational way. Frank sang to you, not at you, like so many pop singers today. Even singers of standards.