I think my music is like anchovies - some people like it, some people get nauseous.

I never wanted to be a performer, that was not one of my goals. I wanted to be a musician and that was that.

I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.

I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.

Yeah, I'm old as the hills and you would think I'd be out to pasture someplace because I've done everything, but nothing has changed.

My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.

I come from nowhere Brooklyn, New York. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These days Williamsburg is kind of a hip area, but when I grew up there, the taxi drivers wouldn't even go over the bridge, it was so dangerous.