What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I'd get too loaded, I couldn't remember the sentence I just read.

When I was taking arithmetic in the first grade I said to myself, "I'm going to be a singer. I don't have to worry about numbers." I didn't think I was going to be famous or a star.

Cocaine made my nose bleed right away. I thought why do I need a nose bleed? It would make me real nervous and talk really fast. I'm already pretty good at talking too fast. I thought, "Why do I need that?"

So goodbye, I'll be leaving, I see no sense in this crying and grieving. We'll both live a lot longer, if you live without me.

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

I can't sing half as well as Claudia Lennear. Hats off to her, but somehow, things happened for me.

Being an entertainer, especially in times like these, is really a public service.