Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block.
When I felt that fame - people were nosing me out - well, I moved on. I used traveling names; wigs if necessary.
An artist needs a certain amount of turmoil and confusion.
Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about.
Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.
I was anti-intellectual to the nth. Basically I liked to dance and paint, and that was about it.