I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.

I'm a real rebel with a cause.

Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band's lead singer, Eric Burdon. "So you're the honky," she said, "who stole my song and got a hit out of it?

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

I do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any one of his songs.

You don't have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.

The pressure of show business is on all the time and show business is a fickle business. Whatever is popular now - that's all that counts. I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why.