I say what's in my heart, and I do it in my concerts.

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.

You have to conquer every obstacle, before you can reach the top of the mountain.

Every word spoken is a reflection of your inner beliefs!

It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.

I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.

Hopefully the rappers can start to open the eyes in the neighborhoods and communities.

I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.

I would like to know that I was still going to be employed as a woman well into my 60s. In acting terms, a career that spans a lifetime is a very hard thing to achieve, particularly as a woman.

Happiness is a mindset for your journey, not the result of your destination.

I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore.