You take romance - I'll take Jell-O.

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

I used to be very self-conscious. I used to wish I was pretty. My cousin Georgia always taught me that if you smile, people will like you. Sometimes people will say something you don't like, and you get angry a bit, but you just smile. You let it go by, even if you really would like to choke 'em. By smiling, I think I've made more friends than if I was the other way.

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.

The only thing better than singing is more singing.

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

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do.