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" You know, I'm pretty much an open book. "

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" I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record. "

" 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. "

" The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for the duration. "

" Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people have been. A lot of the people I've talked to like the record. "

" I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s. "

" 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. "

" I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey. "

" I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio. "

" I was kind of known as a ballad singer. People would send ballads. Some of them would go over my shoulder and float off the top of my head, and I just didn't feel anything. Then I would hear a song that would absolutely shake me. "

" I don't think I was considered to be a cabaret singer because I didn't have patter that was written. "

" My grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed. "

" I say what's in my heart, and I do it in my concerts. "

" I choose things by how they resonate in my heart. "

" 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've always loved jazz. "

" Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning. "

" I've got my whole life. There's a lifetime of experience, a lifetime of experiencing the road and the music and different players. It makes me a richer human being. I have a greater source of information to tap into, a wealth of life. "

" When I sang that song, I felt it was almost as if some force had moved into my body. Things like that have only happened to me singing jazz. It doesn't happen when singing pop. I get so deeply into the music, it feels like I've become someone else. "

" 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. "

" Universal was absolutely marvelous about sitting down with me and listening to my input. It wasn't something where they chose a bunch of songs that were best sellers. They did a marvelous job on the packaging. It's a beautiful tribute. "