I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.

I am harder on myself than anyone else could be.

Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.

I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung.

I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway.

During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.

I love animals to the extent that my home is my dog's home! Which means that nothing is too good for my Freckles-chairs, couches, beds. But I do draw the line on chipmunks nibbling at my table linens, bedding, blankets, etc.