If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.

My mother used to play nothing but Billie Holiday.

The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?'

Amazon.com isn't the same as going down an aisle. The same as record stores. You'll go for Billie Holiday, and you buy Gustav Mahler as you're going out the door.

My great hero is Billie Holiday, and I've always wanted to do an album of standards with a piano-led quartet.

I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.