- Nobody ever told me anything about sex. I was a nice Jewish boy so I knew you shouldn't do it, whatever it was, to nice girls. All my life I have been attracted to nice girls - the kind you aren't supposed to do it to. And they, too, have been brought up, at least in my generation, that they shouldn't do it either. How it gets done between nice people is a mystery to me. What I think happens is, nice people do it, but their hearts aren't in it.
- On why he always insisted on full orchestral backing on his recordings: The effect is like this - you're looking into Tiffany's most elegant store window, and in the window is a black velvet pillow, and right in the middle of the pillow is an onion - that's me!
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