I love Gershwin. I love musicals.

You want your fans to like what you do, because it's coming from your heart and soul. You write it, you produce this thing. It's like your baby.

If the 70's freed our inhibitions, what good did it do?

Well first of all, I'm a singer. I sing since I talk. So the great ballad singers, the people that sang with so much feeling, jazz, blues, all those singers, they were songs that I listened to, records that my mom played for me, and then later I bought.

My mother had a beautiful, soothing voice that made me melt.

You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come.

Sometimes my mother had difficulty communicating with me about certain topics.