Don't get even, get mad.

The thing that influenced me most was the way Tommy played his trombone. It was my idea to make my voice work in the same way as a trombone or violin-not sounding like them, but "playing" the voice like those instrumentalists.

The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.

All day long, they lie in the sun, and when the sun goes down, they lie some more.

Nothing anybody's said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does.

Bad reviews I've gotten never diminished the number of people in my audience; good reviews have never added to the number of people in my audience; be your own critic.

When I sing, I believe. I'm honest. If you want to get an audience with you, there's only one way. You have to reach out to them with total honesty and humility.