Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.

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

My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters.

Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music...I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.

Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.

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

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