I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.

Love comes from the most unexpected places.

When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.

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

I never sing in the shower either.

It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.

I was a personality before I became a person.