I think you'll find, when you're married, that it isn't nearly so important for you to be interesting as it is to make your husband feel that he's interesting.

Being able to sing all these years has helped me handle life's tragedies.

I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing. And things snowballed.

My music was called plastic, antiseptic, placid.

I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness.

I always thought that Elvis could have been a great actor, and that he was put in a lot of unimportant movies when he could have done a lot of great ones.

When there's friction in the house, the only answer is good manners.