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

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.

He loved her, free parts and labor. But she broke down and died.

As a musician, I've accomplished what I hoped to accomplish.

I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of hair-raising. At some point I just went, don't be frightened, you can't do anything wrong, it's your show.

Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.

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