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.

It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense.

I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge.

There was a subtlety about Peggy Lee. It was powerful. There was a valuable use of space. Everything was not cluttered. Her voice was out front and was the key instrument.

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

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

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