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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

No, because I was always nervous about being onstage.

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

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

I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.

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

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

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

You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.