I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.

I took it to heart that in order to be a good person; you never said anything mean about anybody.

I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves.

I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.

The advancements that women have made are very threatening to men in the job place. There haven't been that many women in politics. If you look at the conventions, it's kind of pathetic how many men are the heads of companies. On the other hand, I'm not sure what the reality should be.

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.

Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music...I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.