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 never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever.

I don't care to dress up except when it is necessary or good for my business.

My father came back one day and forced my mother to submit to him. He raped her, holding a knife.

We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available.

When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege.

I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow.