I've spent an awful lot of my time in the air. I've had everything happen to me in a plane that could happen. Except a crash.

John Lennon was very irreverent and very intelligent.

I believe I became one of the first singers to be launched via television exposure. I guess I was a new kind of musical stylist for a new kind of media.

I was nuts about Elvis, like every girl in America.

I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on.

I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame.

God has never disappointed me.