The best is yet to come, and won't that be fine? You think you've seen the sun, but you ain't seen it shine.

Here's to the confusion of our enemies!

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

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

Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

The only male singer who I've seen besides myself and who's better than me--that is Michael Jackson.

I don't know what other singers feel when they articulate lyrics, but being an 18-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of violent emotional contradictions, I have an overacute capacity for sadness as well as elation.