We change our opinions of ourselves so often. What the outside world thinks is only a small part of our image.
Life is a dream even in its most painful moments, it’s a dream that we can dance to.
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.
As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.
Anticipation is making me late, it’s keeping me waiting.
I took it to heart that in order to be a good person; you never said anything mean about anybody.
Being in this business for as long as I’ve been in it, it’s sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls.
So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had.
It’s like The Mold in Dr. Florey’s Coat, about the discovery of penicillin. Out of these strange accidents come huge discoveries. A certain purple bleeds into red and all of a sudden you have something unexpected.
Well, I make every song I sing personal. I’ve never chosen a song that wasn’t.
But I’m lost when it comes to you.
I’m still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.
I haven’t got time for the pain.
It didn’t matter as much because I’m a singer, not an actress, but my face is more acceptable in a way now than when I first came on the scene, because I’m part black.
The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the ’60s and ’70s.
You know, when I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1997 I realized I had spent too long arranging my attitude.
So many artists who came out during that time, including myself, were able to get on radio. New forms of singer-songwriters developed out of that.
Undoubtedly, Patsy Cline was a trailblazer and in that respect, all women who are singular in a man’s field have a special power.
I’ve learned that nobody’s perfect, and I don’t expect myself to be perfect anymore.
Then I went through a big Peggy Lee stage, then I became Annie Ross, then Judy Collins.