It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it.

I had a career for 25 years in Australia before I ever came to the United States.

There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasnt heard it.

I worked with my parents on the stage in production numbers since I was 4, but I never really gave much thought to being a performer on my own until I was 12 or 13.

I'm still an embryo with a long long way to go.

Women temper men. We have a good influence on them.

I wanted control over the merchandising, the actual packaging of the product. That was a big factor. The only way for me to exercise control on all those levels was to start my own label.