Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.

I ... started out to become a jazz pianist; in the meantime I started singing and I sang the way I felt and that's just the way it came out.

I'm a businessman. I work for business people. The kind of thing they say is: Now we've sold a lot of records, let's sell some more.

The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.

Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.

The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?

If I could read it, I could play it.