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.

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.

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.

There was a subtlety about Peggy Lee. It was powerful. There was a valuable use of space. Everything was not cluttered. Her voice was out front and was the key instrument.

... omniscience about life and death is not within a physician's purview. A doctor should never write off a person a priori.

Literature sustains life because it captures death in its forward march. Clickety-clickety-clack, the wheels go round and round ...

Be inspire to explore your world.

Kiss me like you want to live.—Lachlain.

I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.

Its just you and your opponent at the board and you're trying to prove something

Don't mourn over your bad decisions. Just start overcoming them with good ones.

When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.

I take square aim at an unbiblical churchianity that has resulted in a church-centric religion that fails to reflect the heart of God for people.

But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye.