I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.

Twenty-five years is a long time for a girl to live out of a trunk, and after looking over a few houses, I fell in love with one in Southwest Los Angeles.

There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.

Whenever I write for hotel reservations, I always enclose a set of rules I have made for the hotels.

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.

Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.

I have always been psychic. The walls of any room I walk into talk to me.