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 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.

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.

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.

Concentrate on the road ahead, not on the road behind!

Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.

In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words.

He's the kind of guy who will stab you in the back right to your face.

I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the many, as against the privileged few

Within any drama in anyone's life, there's always a way to find the humor in it. Without humor no one cares about whatever drama is going on.

There is a temptation in politics to look for simplistic slogans and to play the game in a way that looks like you're a savvy politician.

Don't do it for the money. Follow the path to do what makes your heartbeat faster. Follow your passion.

When we want to speak to God, we pray. And when we want Him to speak to us, we search the scriptures.

I always knew that I wanted to be a writer. I think I was six or seven when I learned how to read, and I still remember it.