My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know.

The ones the listeners loved most of all in those early years were the four Lennon girls who became the whole nation's little sisters.

One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.

I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.

You know, it's a long world.

I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for any kind of improvement in me.

I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.