Sinatra is the essence of vocal style. This man has an innate quality of knowing what is good musically. You can sum that up best by saying that he has musical integrity. Even when he does a bad song, there’s a good quality in the presentation.

If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That’s publicity, man.

I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.

Once I get outside my house in the morning, I’m on.

May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.

Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.

When you lose a lover it’s like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time.

I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.

Tap dancing all started with the old clog waltz.

Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch – unless he’s Humphrey Bogart.