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" We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure. "

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" You know, people want to honor me, and on the one hand I just don't want to be a poster child; but on the other, I want to do something classy and great - something where the residuals will go to the cause. "

" You're lucky you had that when you were 20. I sure didn't. I was overweight, and I had acne. "

" Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't. "

" So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had. "

" I always think it's interesting to dig a little bit deeper every time you go to someplace that seems like a revelation or a strong connection to an emotional truth. "

" Well, I tried to get a record deal in 1966 or '67, and everyone thought I was too eclectic. "

" You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it. "

" Then I went through a big Peggy Lee stage, then I became Annie Ross, then Judy Collins. "

" I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs. "

" We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big. "

" My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow. "

" We need role models who are going to break the mold. "

" Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs. "

" My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters. "

" Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music. "

" My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything. "

" I've gone through the village of my songwriting and my artistry, and I've gone through lots of different phases, including one where it has been very quiet and abandoned me for a few years. "

" I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing. "

" As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me. "

" A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars. "

" I just want to show off my scar proudly and not be afraid of it. "

" You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new. "

" There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her. "