Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to get insulted.

You name it and I've done it. I'd like to say I did it my way. But that line, I'm afraid, belongs to someone else.

The only person I ever hurt was myself and even that I did to the minimum. If you can do that and you're still functioning, you're the luckiest person in the world.

My talent was the weapon, the power, the way for me to fight. It was the one way I might hope to affect a man's thinking.

My mother was born in San Juan. So I'm Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman. When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time.

Sinatra is the essence of vocal style. This man has an innate quality of knowing what is good musically. You can sum that up best by saying that he has musical integrity. Even when he does a bad song, there's a good quality in the presentation.

In terms of addiction, there is nothing more powerful than men's toys.