Most People Are So Hard To Please

It's Easier For Me To Sit With The Producers And The Writers And I Give Them My Feelings And My Thoughts And What I Think I Feel Like Singing About And Then They Go Away And Write It.

It Seems Like I Don't Have A Lot Of Time For All The Things I Need To Do. I'm Spreading Myself Fairly Thin. I Have Responsibilities To My Children. I Have A Big Staff That Works For Me. And When You Have A Staff, And I'm Sure You Know This, You're Always Concerned With Everybody's Life All The Time.

My Children Come First And The Career Comes In Around That.

You Can Have A Lot Of New York And Still See What's Going On In The Rest Of The World, I Think - Like In China.

I'm From A Singing Family, But They're Not Professional Singers, Only Gospel - My Grandfather Was A Minister. I Started To Sing The Music That Was Out Then Because My Mother Used To Play It All The Time. It Was The End Of The '50s, The Beginning Of The '60s. There Was Frankie Lyman And The Teenagers, Etta James... We Used To Sit Outside On The Stoop And Sing. We Even Used To Put Our Radios And Record Players Outside.