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.

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

Your voice dries up if you don't use it.

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.

My music was called plastic, antiseptic, placid.

What I like about singing is that, for me, it's a substitute for the psychiatrist's couch.

On the radio I listen to the easy-listening stations, the jazz stations.