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.

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

I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.

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.

Life is a dream even in its most painful moments, it's a dream that we can dance to.

Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't.

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