I recorded with Sinatra, but the recording business is a very strange strata right now.

Do, What you're going to do in longevity. Not just what happens tomorrow.

I also work with the regular orchestras in Munich, Germany and other similar orchestras.

Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music writing - which is a huge budget in any orchestra that plays popular music.

Then I went to radio with Sinatra and I watched that disappear.

I grew up on film scores and scores from films.

Well, I worked with lots of different artists, of course.

I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios.

I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood.

And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood.

I listen to everything, I listen to all artists that come along.

We're all so multifaceted, and it's impossible to see all the sides at once.

My vigour vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.

I'm always wondering what is the job that gives the writer the most amount of time to write. I still don't know what the answer is as someone who has taught and is now working at a grocery store.

Vampires pretending to be humans pretending to be vampires ... How avant-garde!

If you start the day reading the obituaries, you live your day a little differently.

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

You don't begin to live, until you've lost everything.

The country is split. There are - more people voting for Hillary Clinton than Donald Trump, but he's the president.

I never care personally what people say about me. The music, and the message - this will always be more important to me than people thinking I'm the best.

It is not happiness until you capture it and store it out of the reach of time.