If I could read your mind, what a tale your thoughts could tell. Just like a paperback novel, the kind that drugstores sell.

A lot of people influenced me as I was learning but probably Bing Crosby was the most influential, because I would hear his Christmas albums, which my parents played a lot.

I got to sing solo in the junior choir when I was 10 or 11 and won a competition, and my sister's piano playing improved to a certain level. One time my sister and I worked together. The first song we ever sang in High School was Rags to Riches by Tony Bennett.

I can see her lying back in her faded dress in a room where do what you don't confess.

I was happy to be in England, because my mother had always loved the royals, and so do I.

Be calm in the face of all common disgraces.

She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.