I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50.

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.

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.

After I decided to become a Jew, only then did I learn that the Jews don't have all the money. When I found out Rockefeller and Ford were goyim, I almost resigned.

Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.

Imitations only better the original.