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

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.

If you want to be the best, baby, you've got to work harder than anybody else.

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.

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

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.

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