I can make a song up about anything: garbage, the weather, things in the news.

I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us.

I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive.

I have always thought of music as a highway with many lanes.

I can make a song up about anything: garbage, the weather, things in the news.

My whole thing is not just to play music for people, but to make them part of the evening.

I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons