I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.

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.

Jesus Christ is the KING in God's kingdom.

A specialist is a person who knows very much about very little and continues to learn more and more about less and less until eventually he knows practically everything about almost nothing at all.

In my plays I want to look at life at the commonplace of existence as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

Why do we make so much of knowledge, struggle so hard to get some little skill not worth the effort?

It is because of men that women dislike one another.

I perfectly feele even at my fingers end.

Any idiot can train himself into the ground; the trick is working in training to get gradually stronger.

My biggest ambition over everything is to have kids. It feels great. I'd love a big family.

If I had faced it then, I wouldn't be facing it now, but sooner or later you have to choose between running and facing the thing you thought you could not face.

The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.