Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.

If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be helped to develop all the other necessary attributes.

I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.

To be granted some kind of usable talent and to be able to use it to the fullest extent of which you are capable - this, to me, is a kind of joy that is almost unequaled.

I like clean ladies and nice ladies.

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.

In spite of the Depression, or maybe because of it, folks were hungry for a good time, and an evening of dancing seemed a good way to have it.