Now what kind of an attitude is that, 'These things happen?' They only happen because this whole country is just full of people who, when these things happen, they just say, 'These things happen,' and that's why they happen! We gotta have control of what happens to us.

[Cole Porter] sang like a hinge.

Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist

Mom claimed that I could carry a tune at 2 or 3 years of age. Maybe she was a little prejudiced.

My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician

Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to broadway.

Now what kind of an attitude is that, 'These things happen?' They only happen because this whole country is just full of people who, when these things happen, they just say, 'These things happen,' and that's why they happen! We gotta have control of what happens to us.