If I'm driving to L.A. and have anxiety about making the drive, if I've got Peggy with me, we're cool.

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 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.

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

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