Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.

The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it.

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

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

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

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

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.