I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.

There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end.

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.

I think a lot of men are afraid of pretty things, and I'm not, I like pretty songs.

I think I've always been waiting for things to happen.

I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement.