I was kind of known as a ballad singer. People would send ballads. Some of them would go over my shoulder and float off the top of my head, and I just didn't feel anything. Then I would hear a song that would absolutely shake me.

I've always loved jazz.

If I'm driving to L.A. and have anxiety about making the drive, if I've got Peggy with me, we're cool.

I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.

I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s.

Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.

My grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed.