It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it.

I couldn't do anything. I'd work in a department store for a couple of weeks, but I couldn't hack it. I couldn't even type! I had no skills whatsoever outside of show business.

I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them.

My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music.

Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time.

In the '50s, a lot of girls never saw beyond the wedding day.

It's so nice to be insane, no one asks you to explain.