When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege.

New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.

Well, if I used the privilege of self-incrimination at that time, I must have felt that perhaps there might be something that might incriminate me in answering.

You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you.

I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.

The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down.