If you're trying to do what's popular now, you're way behind already. By the time you record it and do it and try to copy it, it's moved on.

As an entertainer, my job is to help people have fun.

You've got to believe. Never be afraid to dream.

Sex and drugs were simply not discussed in our culture at that time.

My family was musical on both sides. My father’s family had a famous flautist and a classical pianist. My mother won a contest to be Shirley Temple’s double — she was the diva of the family. At 8, I learned how to play guitar. I used to play songs from the ‘20s, ‘30s and ‘40s in the kitchen for my grandmother.

She's an amazing dog and really inspired everything that's in this book.

Because it's one thing when you - oh, I love this tune. But then when you go to sing it, it's got to have something really personal. Then down to 25, and then to pick the final ones I just picked the ones that were more personal, that had something to do with my life.