Las Vegas is the only place I know where money really talks--it says, Goodbye.

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.

I want to be buried with a Zippo, a roll of dimes & a bottle of Jack!

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.

When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.

To me religion is a deeply personal thing in which man and God go it alone together, without the witch doctor in the middle. The witch doctor tries to convince us that we have to ask God for help, to spell out to him what we need, even to bribe him with prayer or cash on the line.