I have complete artistic control, and I just do my best album every time and trust it to fate.

I'm very happy to have a small, long, career instead of one big hit and then oblivion.

Somebody called me a 'bruised romantic' once, and I like that.

It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past for American Heritage magazine.

When I dance, I love the romance and sexiness of it, and love having it be clear to both dancers that the man leads! But the man has to know what he's doing!

Thank God for beautiful songs about feeling despair when you yourself are in despair. They really get us through.

I have complete artistic control, and I just do my best album every time and trust it to fate.