The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.
A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.
I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.
We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.
You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.
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.