Everybody wants to know about my style and how it came about. It's no big secret. It's the way I feel.

She is amazingly creative, bringing so much more to a song than just a singer. She is a first-class musician and the most gracious person in the world.

I guess what everyone wants more than anything else is to be loved. And to know that you loved me for my singing is too much for me. Forgive me if I don't have all the words. Maybe I can sing it and you'll understand.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

The fabulous places I've been, wonderful things that've happened, great people I've met ought to make a story.

It isn't where you came from, its where you're going that counts.

Ella knows her way around her voice as very few people today. But there are times when she seems to be unaware there are things the human voice just doesn't do. She does them.