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

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.

Undoubtedly, Patsy Cline was a trailblazer and in that respect, all women who are singular in a man's field have a special power.

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

You know, when I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1997 I realized I had spent too long arranging my attitude.

I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.

He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.