I shall always respect the composer. If I embellis...

In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.

As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York.

Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.

I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.

The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.