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

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

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

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As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.

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

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But when we listened to the radio, it was Bill Haley and the Comets or the Everly Brothers.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music.

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I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.

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

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

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

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We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure.

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

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I just want to show off my scar proudly and not be afraid of it.

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No, because I was always nervous about being onstage.

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

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I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack.

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My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters.

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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.

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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.

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

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There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her.

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My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.

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It didn't matter as much because I'm a singer, not an actress, but my face is more acceptable in a way now than when I first came on the scene, because I'm part black.

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

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One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside.

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