Many people know how to criticize, but few know how to praise.

I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty.

When I first went on the stage I was 17 and under the legal age for performers.

I could depend a lot on my shaking, though I never shimmied vulgarly and only to express myself.

The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down.

I dressed plain, but my partners were always spending more money on clothes than I could afford.

What impressed me most about New York were its huge apartment houses.