It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense.

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.

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.

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.

Thank God you have got a Father that can be angry, but that loves you as much when He is angry as when He smiles upon you.

The unknown is just as unknown as the ability to discover the known inside it.

A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.

I'm a big believer in listening to my body's cravings.

Every U.S. citizen owes allegiance to our nation. Some Americans consider that anything less than high treason is allegiance.

Baseball is not a sport you can achieve individually.

He was one of the few political leaders I have ever met whose public speeches revealed more than his private conversations. [On Ronald Reagan]

That's love. That's all it means. It means sharing joy with people.

Usually when people say they have mixed feelings about something, it's a sort of euphemistic way of saying they hate it.

I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of it. I don't understand it, and you can't let it take away from your life and what you are trying to do.