I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.
We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.
Everyone has problems, and learning to share them is essential. Hiding pain requires an enormous amount of energy; sharing it is liberating.
Anticipation is making me late, it's keeping me waiting.
I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.
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.