Some people say, I'd give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn't. I didn't enjoy being 30.
The rain is sharp today, as you shock me sane.
My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she would put on Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Cole Porter records. I'd crawl up on the piano stool, sit on a phone book and play.
To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.
From in the shadow she calls. And in the shadow she finds a way, finds a way. And in the shadow she crawls, clutching her faded photograph. My image under her thumb. Yes with a message for my heart. She’s been everybody else’s girl maybe one day she’ll be her own.