My handicap? Man, I am a one-eyed, black Jew! That's my handicap!

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

All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.

To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

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.

The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.

I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.