If I live to be 90, and I'm planning to, I'll always love performing for a live audience.

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 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.

Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.

Sounds always fascinated me.

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.

I played a Spaniard. I looked about as Spanish as any other fair-skinned German.