Love more and openly..

I said to my teacher, 'I can't be a singer because I'm not pretty enough, and I'm fat.' And she looked at me and said, 'Tell that to Nell Carter, bab….

I worshipped Ethel Merman and I worshipped Ethel Merman a lot. It's incredible - Ethel Merman was a conventional singer. Her naming her child Ethel M….

The less inhibited you are the better..

The blues is life itself..

Identify the thing that is going to stop you and then stop it..

I love to sing. It's the easiest thing for me to do..

I'm a much better singer than actor, which doesn't really say a whole lot..

I say, let's learn more and then speculate..

It's great to be back on terra cotta.

Business is business and politics is politics and never between shall meet..

Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its tens of thousands..

I know what I want! And I just go for it..

You can have it all, but not all at once..

There you are, sir. There's nothing more than to love and be loved..

It takes at least one to make a marriage..

Has anybody seen my tambourine?.

And she walked away, and she walked away, and that was that, and that was that..

As a singer-songwriter who gets up on stage and sings about those things that make me vulnerable is an amazing experience. You get up on stage and ef….

Take what you do seriously, but yourself lightly.

Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer..