I don't know who I am but you know, life is for learning.

I learned a woman is never an old woman.

I am as constant as a northern star

Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures. It spoke to me. To me, it was a tender entreaty for the misunderstood.

Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block.

Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.

I create by feeling rather than by intellectualizing.