I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

My son don't have to say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud. He don't have to be called those crazy names.

I was stillborn. The midwives laid me aside, thought I was really gone. I laid there about an hour, and they picked me back up and tried again, 'cause my body …

'I hope that Dreamworks can sell enough records that they're happy - so I don't get dropped.'

I think my chances of getting into the Rock 'N' Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli's.

Jane Monheit is skyrocketing up the jazz charts. By next year, we won't be able to get her. (comment from Allison Stockel, artistic director of the Ridgefield …