When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!

I think now I'm being taken a little more seriously. That's pure conjecture on my part.

When Billie Holiday sings a song, I hear the song, but I always hear her and her truth.

I'm facing upstage, with my back to the audience, and the spotlight comes up on my back as I start singing.

It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.

The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations.

When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!