When I played Lady Day, I took Aba onstage with me as a joke. He started singing-in tune!-and the audience loved it.

I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

I was called a naughty girl only because I was singing naughty songs.

I love men and I like to get their attention.

Young ghetto boys thought that in this society, the good guys lost and the bad guys won.

As the 'Batman' TV series was returning to ABC for its second season in 1967, the TV bosses decided to take Catwoman into another direction... lucky for me.

The boys that were running away from America because they didn't want to get involved with the Vietnam War had come to me. They would tell me how they felt.