Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't.

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

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

We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure.

You know, when I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1997 I realized I had spent too long arranging my attitude.

He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.

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.