I did the Broadway album unfortunately in a year when there were no hits.

Any good music must be an innovation.

I'm not an intellectual composer.

I write emotional music.

Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way.

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.

I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible.

I love doing concert music.

When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30.

That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing.

In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach.

The light died in the low clouds. Falling snow drank in the dusk. Shrouded in silence, the branches wrapped me in their peace. When the boundaries were erased, once again the wonder: that *I* exist.

No, I have no desire to be a feminist, I just want to be a female,

Things are neither good nor bad, all that matters is our thinking....!

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

If my thought-dreams could be seen/ They'd probably put my head in a guillotine.

He that lends, gives.

What am I doing? Nothing. I am letting life rain upon me.

I am as true as truth's simplicity, And simpler than the infancy of truth.