I've learned that nobody's perfect, and I don't expect myself to be perfect anymore.

The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.

Everyone has problems, and learning to share them is essential. Hiding pain requires an enormous amount of energy; sharing it is liberating.

Then I went through a big Peggy Lee stage, then I became Annie Ross, then Judy Collins.

Being in this business for as long as I've been in it, it's sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls.

I used the physical scar of my breast cancer operation, the scar that I have across my chest as a metaphor for all kinds of scars.

I've always thought of myself as being a warrior. When you actually have a battle, it's better than when you don't know who to fight.