Don't Threaten Me With Love, Baby. Let's

You've Got To Have Something To Eat And A Little Love In Your Life Before You Can Hold Still For Any Damn Body's Sermon On How To Behave.

I Never Hurt Nobody But Myself And That's Nobody's Business But My Own.

Don't Be In Such A Hurry.

The Blues To Me Is Like Being Very Sad, Very Sick, Going To Church, Being Very Happy ... It's Sort Of A Mixed Up Thing. You Just Have To Feel It.

I Think I Copied My Style From Louis Armstrong. Because I Used To Like The Big Volume And The Big Sound That Bessie Smith Got When She Sang ... So I Liked The Feeling That Louis Got And I Wanted The Big Volume That Bessie Smith Got. But I Found That It Didn't Work With Me, Because I Didn't Have A Big Voice. So Anyway Between The Two Of Them I Sorta Got Billie Holiday.