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" I had this image before Boy George, before the Beatles, before the Rolling Stones. "

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" I always wanted to be a big star. "

" I am ready for anything that happens. "

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" I don't think I'm turning back the clock by doing these old tunes. I love rock and roll and popular music. It's just that the spirits of the singers whose songs I do are living within me. That's why the songs come out in the voices of the original singers. I'm not doing imitations. That's the way they sound inside me. "

" I keep recording and recording, but they always stay on the rack and never get out there. "

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" As long as you're recording and they pay the fee, it's like a lottery ticket. You never stop trying. "

" I'm the first has-been star singer ever to sing with the circus. I mean, Presley sang with the circus, but that was before he became a star. "

" I love the past. I read about the past all the time. "

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" I don't believe in Women's Liberation. No, no, no, no, no. Not at all. "

" I think they should give me a spot on 'Dallas' or 'Dynasty' or one of those shows. "

" Whenever I sang, I said to myself, 'Maybe tonight.' I would never let down, no matter how few people were listening. "

" The only thing I think of is the next hit record. "

" Don't bury me with anyone old. "

" It was not easy to go into a subway in 1955 at eight o'clock in the morning smelling nice and hanging on the rails with white make-up. I could see people nudging each other saying, 'What is that?' "

" I was trying to find an original style that didn't sound like Tony Bennett or anyone else. So I prayed about it, woke up with this high voice, and by 1954, I was going to amateur nights and winning. "

" I'm a very difficult person to live with. "

" We hear about the Gershwins, the Kerns, and the Berlins, but there were some great little writers like Theodore Morse, Charles K. Harris, and Ernest R. Ball, who wrote 'Let the Rest of the World Go By.' "

" The only thing I pray for is the strength to go out without complaining. "

" If the cap ain't on my Crest, if it's squeezed from the middle and not the bottom, there's a problem. "

" I want to get a hit record, and I know I can be good in horror movies. "

" I always bring my little ukelele along in my shopping bag which my dear, sweet father bought me. After all, you just never know when a song might come along. "

" I believe that President Nixon was right in what he did at Watergate. Lack of respect for authority and things like socialism are turning this into a weak, effeminate country. "