I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background.

In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people.

I'm respected, I'm still working, what more could I ask?

Singing other people's material was perceived, I think, as a weakness of my persona. The effect, though, was to make me dig my heels in and try even harder to combine the two.

I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person.

My worst job was working in the laundry of a nursing home.

I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.