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

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.

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.

We imagine that things come into existence, endure for a while, and then pass out of existence

What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?

As long as greed is the root of all evil, there will not be peace.Get rid of selfishness and greed too will disappear.

Since I first started playing basketball, I have just loved it, and nothing has ever made me lose that love.

Chick Corea was a great influence on me, musically, as I was growing up.

If (Declan) Kidney had gone for religion instead of teaching, he would have been Pope.

Your enemy is still yourself. You don't have enemies. They may be self-styled. I have plenty of self-styled enemies. I don't wish them harm.

It's a good thing that dumplings are small because Lee Anne's goodies will make your willpower vanish as you reach for 'just one more'.

A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.

It is no more narrow to claim that one religion is right than to claim that one way to think about all religions is right.