This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish.

I'm not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing.

I figured I could do "It's A Man's, Man's, Man's World" because I believe it's the truth.

I'm not a bourgeois person, never will be.

My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that.

Even as a little child, I've always had that comedian kind of attitude.

My mother always wanted me to be glamorous. When I thought about that, it really fired me up, and once I lost all those pounds, I started to feel really good about myself.