Each song, you're telling a story and acting..

Charm is simply the art of being pleasing..

I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness..

youth has everything - everything but experience and tolerance..

I'm sure there are a lot of things I should have done differently. But I don't think I've stepped on anyone along the way. If I have, I didn't mean t….

The best substitute for money is ingenuity..

The title of that great Christmas song was 'Boogie Woogie Santa Claus,' and no one ever heard of it..

What I like about singing is that, for me, it's a substitute for the psychiatrist's couch..

When there's friction in the house, the only answer is good manners..

A lot of the music, and especially rap, I don't understand..

I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing. And things snowballed..

Your voice dries up if you don't use it..

Don't keep telling your parents they don't understand you. Believe me it's much worse when they do. There's just a chance, you know - they really mig….

Happiness, you'll find, is the greatest magnet in the world..

I think you'll find, when you're married, that it isn't nearly so important for you to be interesting as it is to make your husband feel that he's in….

I always thought that Elvis could have been a great actor, and that he was put in a lot of unimportant movies when he could have done a lot of great ….

I think that one of Elvis' charms was that he could sing almost any kind of music. I am sure that in his heart, which I don't know what was there, bu….

On the radio I listen to the easy-listening stations, the jazz stations..

it follows that if you aren't happy with yourself, you won't be happy with others..

My music was called plastic, antiseptic, placid..

people have a way of laughing at our deams until we make them come true..