“When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!”

“And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.”

“I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.”

“I don't work at being ordinary.”

“You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.”