This is the best biography by me I have ever read.

I realized some of the pitfalls of being well-known; it was nice if you were successful, but it made it just that much harder to take when you failed.

We really were a very musical family. In spite of the fact that we were so poor when I was a youngster that supper was often just a bowl of bread and milk, Father somehow managed to squeeze out enough pennies to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument too.

If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.

On the stage of the Italian Terrace Room in the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1938 ... the place where Champagne Music was born.

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.

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