Some singers want the audience to love them. I love the audience.

On the day I'm performing, I don't hear anything anyone says to me.

I am a very simple person. In spite of all that has happened to me, I have tried to remain the simple person I started out.

One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.

If you know why you fall in love, you aren't in love

If I could live my life over again, there is one thing I would change. I would want to be able to eat less.

You never know what little bundle of encouragements artists carry around with them, what little pats on the back from what hands, what newspaper clipping, what word of hope from what teacher. I suppose the so-called faith in ourselves is the foundation of our talent, but I am sure these encouragements are the mortar that holds it together.