With an ocean between you and your European friends, you have to keep them in your heart.
I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50.
There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.
I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.
Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.
I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten.
You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.
The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it.
I don't have many easy songs.
Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.
