I've had some wonderful love affairs and some that didn't work out. I don't want to dwell on that and I don't want to put people down, but I think all the fabulous places I've been, the wonderful things that have happened for me, the great people I've met - that ought to make a story.

Coming through the years, and finding that I not only have just the fans of my day, but the young ones of today - that's what it means, it means it was worth all of it.

Some kids in Italy call me 'Mama Jazz; I thought that was so cute. As long as they don't call me 'Grandma Jazz.'

I think I do better when I sing.

I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.

I don't want to say the wrong thing, which I always do. I think I do better when I sing.

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