"In the final analysis, each of us is responsible for what we are. We cannot blame it on our mothers, who, thanks to Freud, have replaced money as the root of all evil."

“If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it”

“I was a French Quarter rat from the moment I could get on a bus by myself and go to the French Quarter. I played music most of my early life and it just seemed that to entertain people was a really good thing to do.”

Source : "Tavis Smiley Tonight", October 18, 2008.

“Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.”

“Music is for every single person that walks the planet.”

Source : Interview with Austin L. Ray, www.avclub.com. September 28, 2010.

“Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.”

“I'm coming to believe that there are two kinds of people... those who choose to be masters of their own fate and those who wait in chairs while other dance. I would rather be one of the former than the latter.”

“You can compare me with Greta Garbo. I have big feet, too.”

“Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense.”