Patti Page

What I like about singing is that, for me, it's a substitute for the psychiatrist's couch.

Your voice dries up if you don't use it.

I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness.

I think for any actor, for the roles they deeply, truly want? They always have to audition for them.

Elvis was a giant and influenced everyone in the business.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.