"You know, there are a lot of singers who request that the air conditioning be turned down when they perform. Well, honey - I am not that delicate! I'm like, roasting up here..."
(on high temperatures)

"I guess I'm better off fat - than dead!"
(on quitting smoking & gaining weight)

"This industry can be ugly. I hate the way they place singers into these 'categories' that they gotta stick to."
(on the recording biz)

"Be nice to take that thing home and put it on my wall - but you know it ain't even real. Just a record they spray-painted gold. But that's OK. I'll take this and be more than thrilled! I've been in the business long enough to collect a whole bunch of them suckers!"
(on her album "Living All Alone" going gold)

"Oh honey - I never sweat it. I just order me up a drink and a lot of food and enjoy the ride..."
(on flying)

"I was pretty much a basket case for the first year - I didn't think I was that good. Then when the Tony nomination came through and I got the Theatre World Award - I really thought they gave it to me 'cause there was no-one else.."
(on her Broadway debut)

"It's... nice. Nice... Nice!"
(on dating younger men)

"I haven't been with, kissed... dated... slept with... anybody for about a year now. We're talking celibacy... for real!"
(on her lack of romance)

"Oh, I'm a ballad queen for sure... I don't dig dance stuff very much but I seem to hit the charts with it. Go figure..."
(on her material)