You don't have to prove to me you're beautiful to strangers, I've got loving eyes of my own.

One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside.

I always think it's interesting to dig a little bit deeper every time you go to someplace that seems like a revelation or a strong connection to an emotional truth.

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

As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.

So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had.

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.