Fear is the enemy of logic. There is no more debilitating, crushing, self-defeating, sickening thing in the world--to an individual or to a nation.

For what is a man, what has he got. If not himself, then he has naught.

My greatest teacher was not a vocal coach, not the work of other singers, but the way Tommy Dorsey breathed and phrased on the trombone.

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

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

And now the end is near, and so I face the final curtain.

[Answering the phone] Hello, this is a recording, you've dialed the right number, now hang up and don't do it again.