Don't mind if I fall apart. There's more room in a broken heart.

My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.

I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.

Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.

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

So many artists who came out during that time, including myself, were able to get on radio. New forms of singer-songwriters developed out of that.