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

I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.

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.

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.

I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.

You say we'll soar like two birds through the clouds, but soon you'll cage me on your shelf. I'll never learn to be just me, first by myself.

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