You only go around once, but if you play your cards right, once is enough.
Now there's a grown-up swinging town.
It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me.
When I sing, I believe. I'm honest. If you want to get an audience with you, there's only one way. You have to reach out to them with total honesty and humility.
I'm just a singer, Elvis was the embodiment of the whole American culture.
I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.