Make me feel at home, if you really care, scratch my back and run your pretty fingers through my hair.

It's all a big hoax, honey. I never wrote a song in my life. I get one-third of the credit for recording it. It makes me look smarter than I am. I've never even had an idea for a song. Just once, mybe.

I go for all the belles, except the wedding kind.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you're hating part of yourself.

I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money.

I'm trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It's so easy to get turned.