I've listened to Jazz since I was born and always knew I'd be a Jazz singer!

It's [Joni Mitchell's "A Case of You"] been one of my favorite songs for my entire life.

It's not so bad to live out of a suitcase. It's a really beautiful life.

I've always chosen all my own material; no one ever told me what to sing or how to sing it, but I've always been pressured intensely to use musicians outside of my band.

I tell you, when we travel with our own band and we're on the road... Well, I can't even believe this is work.

Jane Monheit is skyrocketing up the jazz charts. By next year, we won't be able to get her.

Barack Obama’s victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing “mere” about symbols.

The best tourist is one without a camera

Opportunities present themselves only to the patient, man and beast, and only they take advantage of those opportunities.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

I resent the creation of a world in which beauty is a reminder of what we're losing rather than a celebration of what we have.

We romanticize entrepreneurshi p so much that people don't do the work. It's not just a dream, not just a goal; it's a lot of hard work. A lot of people are wantrepreneurs, not entrepreneurs.

It costs a lot to build bad products

Success doesn't have to pull, tug, or chafe if we wear our real size.

There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.