The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.

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

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We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.

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

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

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A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.

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

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

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Then I went through a big Peggy Lee stage, then I became Annie Ross, then Judy Collins.

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

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