I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s.

I don't think I was considered to be a cabaret singer because I didn't have patter that was written.

I choose things by how they resonate in my heart.

I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.

Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge.

It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense.

If I'm driving to L.A. and have anxiety about making the drive, if I've got Peggy with me, we're cool.

I'm not stopping. My dream has come true, and I'm staying.

My grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed.

I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey.

Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.

I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy

I approach cooking from a science angle because I need to understand how things work. If I understand the egg, I can scramble it better. It's a simple as that.

Most Americans don't understand Canadian political parties. Neither do most Canadians

It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly.

I have little patience with people who take the Bill of Rights for granted. The Bill of Rights, contained in the first ten amendments to the Constitution, is every American's guarantee of freedom.

In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable.

To try to make men equal by altering social arrangements is like trying to make the cards of equal value by shuffling the pack.

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver.