Cock your hat - angles are attitudes.

If power doesn't mean that you have the opportunity to work with the people that you love , then you haven't really got any.

The best is yet to come and won't that be fine.

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

For my money Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business.

With few exceptions, every major pop singer in the US during her generation has been touched in some way by her genius. It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me. Lady Day is unquestionably the most important influence on American popular singing in the last twenty years.

(While accepting the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award) I've been thinking about why you have to get famous to get an award for helping other people...If your name is John Doe, and you work night and day doing things for your helpless neighbors, what you get for your effort is tired. So, Mr. and Mrs. Doe, and all of you who give of yourselves, to those who carry too big a burden to make it on their own, I want you to reach out and take your share of this...Because if I have earned it, so too have you.