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 don't think I was considered to be a cabaret singer because I didn't have patter that was written.

I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey.

You know, I'm pretty much an open book.

Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

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

Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people have been. A lot of the people I've talked to like the record.