The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.

I haven't got time for the pain.

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

I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.

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.

You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new.

You know, people want to honor me, and on the one hand I just don't want to be a poster child; but on the other, I want to do something classy and great - something where the residuals will go to the cause.