It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I've done.

I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.

I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.

I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.

If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.

I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.

I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.