A Friend Is Never An Imposition.

With Few Exceptions, Every Major Pop Singer In The Us During Her Generation Has Been Touched In Some Way By Her Genius. It Is Billie Holiday Who Was, And Still Remains, The Greatest Single Musical Influence On Me. Lady Day Is Unquestionably The Most Important Influence On American Popular Singing In The Last Twenty Years.

Now There's A Grown-up Swinging Town.

Rock 'n Roll: The Most Brutal, Ugly, Desperate, Vicious Form Of Expression It Has Been My Misfortune To Hear.

It Is Billie Holiday Who Was, And Still Remains, The Greatest Single Musical Influence On Me.

I'm Not One Of Those Complicated, Mixed-up Cats. I'm Not Looking For The Secret To Life... I Just Go On From Day To Day, Taking What Comes.