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"Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang."
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"We have our own reasons for what's motivating us right now."

"Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail."

"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."
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"The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing."

"I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem."

"Ask yourself: was there anything I could have done to prevent the situation? If the answer is yes, do something now and become a better person for it."
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"The slapdash way producers used to assemble a show seems a little unbelievable when we talk about them now."
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"And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve."

"Johnny Guitar... just one of my favorite singers of all time. I met him when we were both on the road with Johnny Otis in the '50s when I was a teenager. We traveled the country in a car together.I would hear him sing every night."

"That's where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was laying hold of some part of me that I didn't even know was there until I let it out."

"This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish."

"I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind."

"What happens is, when I perform, I'm somewhere else. I go back in time and get in touch with who I really am. I forget my troubles, my worries."

"You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them."

"My mother always wanted me to be glamorous. When I thought about that, it really fired me up, and once I lost all those pounds, I started to feel really good about myself."
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