There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world.

Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.

Sometimes I hear my voice and it's been here, silent all these years

When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, 'Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear the string section?' And she would look at me and say, 'No honey, I don't know what you're talking about.'

I was very close to my mother as the youngest of three. She was my playmate.

I don't allow challenges to trip me up.

Somebody will come backstage and go, 'You saved me.' And I will have to say, 'Stop right there. You saved yourself.'