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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.

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

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

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

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

But when we listened to the radio, it was Bill Haley and the Comets or the Everly Brothers.

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

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

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

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.

No, because I was always nervous about being onstage.

I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.

I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack.

Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.

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.

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

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

I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.

My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.

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...

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