Card players have a saying: "It's all right to play if you keep your eyes on the deck" - which is another way of saving, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."

If I had done everything I'm credited with, I'd be speaking to you from a laboratory jar at Harvard.

I would like to be remembered as a man who brought an innovation to popular singing.

Now there's a grown-up swinging town.

Love and marriage, love and marriage, go together like a horse and carriage. This I tell ya, brother, you can't have one without the other.

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

Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.