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Born: 1945-06-25
Profession: Musician
Nation: American
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Tags: Models, Singers


Tags: Big, Collins, Stage


Tags: Ourselves, Pleasure, Trying


Tags: American, Big, Jazz

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

Tags: Personal, Sing, Song

Well, I tried to get a record deal in 1966 or '67, and everyone thought I was too eclectic.

Tags: Deal, Everyone, Thought

You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.

Tags: Inspiring, Tell, Until

You're lucky you had that when you were 20. I sure didn't. I was overweight, and I had acne.

Tags: Lucky, Overweight, Sure

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.

Tags: Business, Time, War

I've gone through the village of my songwriting and my artistry, and I've gone through lots of different phases, including one where it has been very quiet and abandoned me for a few years.

Tags: Few, Gone, Quiet


Tags: Black, Face, Matter


Tags: Pain, Serious, Write


Tags: Music, Put, Sometimes


Tags: Coming, Off, Old


Tags: Strong, War, Woman


Tags: Good, Heart, Mean

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

Tags: Break, Models, Role

My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.

Tags: Beautiful, Looks, Scar


Tags: Her, Try, Used

I always think it's interesting to dig a little bit deeper every time you go to someplace that seems like a revelation or a strong connection to an emotional truth.

Tags: Strong, Time, Truth

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.

Tags: Child, Great, Honor


Tags: Clothes, Singer, Tried


Tags: Bill, Brothers, Radio

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

Tags: Done, Life, Whole

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

Tags: Easy, Sing, Songs

I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.

Tags: Mastectomy

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

Tags: Speak, Terrible, Until


Tags: Afraid, Off, Show


Tags: Fear, Once, Remember

I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves.

Tags: Bad, Pretty, Themselves

I think that most people really know if it's a really great album.

Tags: Album, Great

I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.

Tags: Particular, Peculiar, Try

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

Tags: Songs, Standards

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

Tags: Father, Mother, Singer


Tags: Singing, Sister, Started

No, because I was always nervous about being onstage.

Tags: Nervous

No, because I've never really changed my style that much.

Tags: Changed, Style

So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had.

Tags: Fashion, Happened, Sense

Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs.

Tags: Sometimes, Write, Year


Tags: Begin, Big, Continue


Tags: Human, Nation, Society


Tags: Great, Hope, Success


Tags: Anger, Good, Others


Tags: Hero, Said, Spent

On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience.

Tags: Audience, Gone, Level


Tags: Happen, Ideas, Love

To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally.

Tags: Fellowship, Flattering, Won


Tags: Reason, Story, Writer


Tags: Bit, Life, While

I had a great editor, Rebecca Corbett, from the time I was a city reporter right through to the years I worked on the 'Sun's' enterprise reporting team.

Tags: Great, Sun, Time


Tags: Choices, Said, True


Tags: America, Far, Seems


Tags: Best, Power, Sad

The trick to making a story matter is that every now and then, somebody you care about has to go. If it's somebody that you don't care about, then it doesn't really have - the stakes aren't there. But if you do that every now and then, then the story matters to people. And there are actual stakes involved, emotional stakes.

Tags: Care, Emotional, Matter


Tags: Change, Game, Political


Tags: Him, Thought, Writing