My feeling is that the beaches should belong to everybody. Nobody should be able to build anything. It causes erosion. It's a bad thing altogether.

People have often written about me, that I did this for this reason and that for that reason, and theyre usually 98 percent wrong.

I dont think you can look for love. All you can do is get yourself in a situation where you dont discourage something that may be rather nice.

I was never bored because I always had a book. So I had a doorway into another world or another universe. It was great.

Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.

I think if the United States gave anything to culture at large in the 20th century, the most important contribution made was the popular song.

When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.