All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.

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

Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.

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

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.