I just remembered songs my grandmother taught me, and songs that I learned for the recordings. But, then I learned to speak Italian. When I was there, I hired a professor who stayed with me 24 hours a day. She wouldn't let me speak a word of English.

In the crowd of a million people I'll find my valentine, and then I'll climb the highest steeple and tell the world he's mine.

My heart Has a Mind of Its Own.

I was never encouraged to do it and I played the accordion, which I hated. I wish I had taken piano because I definitely would have written more songs of my own, but I didn't.

A girl can't sing rock & roll too well. It's basically too savage.

Lipstick on your collar said you were untrue. Bet your bottom dollar, you and I are through.

There are some cities that I did take time out to study, 'cause I love history and one of them was Boston, and of course Rome and all of those places like that. But, in Syracuse or Rochester, or any of those places, no.