"My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it's like awards don't mean anything."

"My mother had a great voice. Not like mine, not like my sister's, not like my son's - a high soprano voice, but like a bird. I mean, really beautiful."

"I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious."

"I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you."

"I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra."

"Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love."

"I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror."

"Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society."

"I need instant gratification."

"I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life."

"I never sing in the shower either."

"When I sing, people shut up."

"When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that."

"I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build."

"It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified."

"I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things."

"In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It's not so competitive."

"My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young."

"My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?"

"Life's too short. Start with Dessert!"

"As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights."

"Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work ... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work."

"Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world."

"I tell you what I envy about people in love - I'd love it if someone knew me I mean really knew me. What I like what I'm afraid of what kind of toothpaste I use." - Rose Morgan"

"I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations."

"You've got to discover you, what you do, and trust it."

"Art does not exist only to entertain -- but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for the truth."

"Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President."

"I'm not weird, just different from people who aren't different."

"I go by instinct - i don't worry about experience."

"When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am."

"Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth."

"I always loved art shows at schools. My friends with kids would go, and I would go with them. It's some of my favorite art... It's more about creativity than the grand statement of an agenda."

"I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function."

"If we look at the fact that record covers are essentially advertisements for the music, we acknowledge a function and purpose to draw in the prospective buyer."

"I'm really fascinated by lingos and colloquialisms that are outmoded and have gone by the wayside. I love the way people spoke in the '30s, and the amazing slang of the mid-'60s and '70s."

"I didn't go to high school. I never felt connected to people my age."

"Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message."

"In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool."

"Studying music in a conservatory would be stifling for me, although I respect people who can do it. And by no means am I an expert at notating music or music theory - that's not really my world."

"Something just happens when you're making a record, where certain things start to come out. It's just something in the air."

"When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant."

"What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight."

"They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night"

"The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress."

"The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight."

"Does talent have any need of passions? Yes, of many passions - repressed."

"Space is the stature of God."

"You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you."

"Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear."