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

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.

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.

To do is to be. -Descartes To be is to do. - Voltaire Do be do be do.

Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing - if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.

[Dean Martin] is an absolute, unqualified drunk. And if we ever develop an Olympic drinking team, he's gonna be the coach... Dean Martin has been stoned more often than the United States embassies.

If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it... it possesses you.