Story is what's most important.

The greatest sin is carelessness.

Rampant eclecticism is my middle name.

I only notice the clothes I'm wearing.

Love will abide, take things in stride.

Don't know much, but I know I love you.

Time washes clean, love's wounds unseen.

I always sang harmony with my family growing up.

Men are very delicate. They don't like being rejected.

I wish I had as much in bed as I get in the newspapers.

I think that Frank Sinatra was maybe the greatest pop singer.

The smell of the carpet in a hotel room is the same everywhere.

My feeling about school was that it interfered with my reading.

To sing with Frank Sinatra in any capacity at all is overwhelming.

I love sex as much as I love music, and I think it's as hard to do.

I thought everybody could sing, because everybody in my family could.

I'm your basic atheist that believes in maybe - I'm a spiritual atheist.

The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you.

I've been lucky in my life to work with people who I consider master singers.

I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life.

I can sing better after shooting smack in both arms than after eating too much.

Cocaine made people deaf, it made people dead and it made people real obnoxious.

Being an entertainer, especially in times like these, is really a public service.

What I think is the universal, wonderful thing about music, is that it's very inclusive.

The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream.

Life's full of loss, who knows the cost, living in the memory of the love that never was.

In committing to artistic growth, you have to refine your skills to support your instincts.

Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.

The government has to spend money during a recession, because their spending is our earning.

American radio from the '30s through the '60s was just fabulous. There was such a diversity.

If you don't have story to tell the public at large - you have to be able to sort of go listen.

Sometimes I was frivolous. Did you have some frivolous years? I had to live mine out in public.

Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.

Somewhere out there, beneath the pale moonlight, someone's thinking of me and loving me tonight.

Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.

I can't sing half as well as Claudia Lennear. Hats off to her, but somehow, things happened for me.

I listen mostly to live music, and mostly my musical experience was playing music with other people.

Being a celebrity made me so uncomfortable that I would have preferred standing behind the amplifiers.

Full disclosure here - I had a terrible crush on Smokey Robinson, like every other female on the planet.

The thing I like about singing duets is that I get things out of my voice I never get singing by myself.

The only reason to be with somebody is that they make you a better person and you make them a better person.

There are a lot of aspiring singers who are not paid attention to because they don't look like a fashion model.

We were raised with the idea that we had limitless chances and we got very shocked to learn that wasn't the case.

Up until about a hundred years ago, the world was dark at night. You got to have a real night so you could sleep.

You and I, travel to the beat of a different drum, can't you tell by the way I run, every time you make eyes at me.

Even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing underneath the same bright star.

When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.

I think there's mind in nature. There's a power in nature, and there's a universal power that you'd better not ignore.

I was never bored because I always had a book. So I had a doorway into another world or another universe. It was great.

Everywhere you go, there's a soundtrack. You can't really quite hear it. It's just a little out of the range of hearing.

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