New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.

I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.

If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.

The place that seems most dangerous is exactly where safety lies.

Young people who are just starting out somehow need to let you know they know how to sing.

If you're happy, you eat. If you're sad, you eat. You lose a job, you eat. You get a job, you eat. It's, you know, it's addiction.

I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.