I want to be buried with a Zippo, a roll of dimes & a bottle of Jack!

Fear is the enemy of logic. There is no more debilitating, crushing, self-defeating, sickening thing in the world--to an individual or to a nation.

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.

It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me.

I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.

A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late.

There are several things I think I would have done if I had the chance again. I would have been a little more patient about getting out into the world. I would have seen to it that I had a more formal education. I would have become an accomplished mu