In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous new singers who are interested in writing and interpreting a lyric and in all form of popular music.

Bing Crosby sings like all people think they sing in the shower.

It's the most humbling sport ever. It's like a lousy lover. It's like some guy who's never there when you need him. Every once in a while, he comes and makes you feel like heaven on earth.. And then the moment you say, 'I really need this,' he's gone.

Tennis is like a wonderful, longstanding relationship with a husband. Golf is a tempestuous, lousy lover; it's totally unpredicatable, a constant surprise.

I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today. Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not.

Trouble is a part of life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.

I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me.