"Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well."

"And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor."

"I don't work at being ordinary."

"My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous."

"It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other."

"We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared."

"I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself."

"It's better to get a rosebud while you're alive than a whole bouquet after you're dead."