I don't have to sit around and wait for the next movie to come along, I can go out and sing.

I have such memories; I keep thinking about all the people I worked with. I was in the recording studio and I was talking to one of the engineers who is 24 and they don't know these people. They just absolutely don't know the people and it just tickles me. I don't feel like I've grown up.

I don't know what my life would have been like if I'd never gotten into show business.

If I'm with a man I'm soft and buttery.

I would like to enjoy my life a little bit more so I can really have more fun, but my work is my fun.

I really, deeply believe that dreams do come true. Often, they might not come when you want them. They come in their own time.

I'm from a singing family, but they're not professional singers, only gospel - my grandfather was a minister. I started to sing the music that was out then because my mother used to play it all the time. It was the end of the '50s, the beginning of the '60s. There was Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers, Etta James... We used to sit outside on the stoop and sing. We even used to put our radios and record players outside.