“The public is never wrong.”

Wouldn’t it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?

Rather than lose the public because television is here.

I was raised in a really terrific, close family, and I’ve never needed to escape anything or to really let myself go by dancing on tables.

I’ve never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn’t have a price tag on the other side.

I was never going to be a doctor or a lawyer, so being a musician seemed to be the best of what was on offer.

I’m never gonna step away from stand-up. I can’t. That’s what got me where I am, and that’s also my muse. That’s how I stay level-headed. That’s what keeps me going.

Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.

I never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n’ roll – that was music to me. Everything else was boring.

I liked being able to speak to somebody and throw it back and forth, and they can’t predict what you’re going to say next.

I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me ‘yellow gal.’ I was caught in between both sides – nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself.