My problem is that people have been writing books about me.A lot of things that people write about you are incorrect, but you don't fight about it.

The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?'

Take a little time out of your busy day to give encouragement to someone who's lost their way.

I want to live in Paris for a couple of years. I'm dying to do the Josephine Baker story. I really want to be there and do it. It's certainly my intention to do it.

I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I select, people know what's going on in my life.

I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly.

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