One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.

I am the proud and humble recipient of more than 30 honorary doctorate degrees.

I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more.

We singers have a different level of responsibility from other musicians. We have words that we must convey; we have meanings that we must convey through these lyrics.

It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion.

I love singing jazz. I don't like the idea that classical music should be over here and jazz should be someplace else. It's all wonderful, and we should be open to enjoying it all.