It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past for American Heri…

- Susannah Mccorkle

Please believe that I do this because I am convinced that my illness cannot be helped for any length of time and I cannot bear to be a burden on anyo…

- Susannah Mccorkle

I worry about kids and all they are exposed to. Kids get so bombarded with hard, commercial sounds. They don't even have a chance to develop the soft…

- Susannah Mccorkle

I have complete artistic control, and I just do my best album every time and trust it to fate.

- Susannah Mccorkle

I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on a record, it was a revelation. She sounded like a woma…

- Susannah Mccorkle

Somebody called me a 'bruised romantic' once, and I like that.

- Susannah Mccorkle

If you sing honestly and sincerely to kids, they will respond with all their hearts.

- Susannah Mccorkle

Thank God for beautiful songs about feeling despair when you yourself are in despair. They really get us through.

- Susannah Mccorkle

If I love a song I hope to find a way to get other people to love it too.

- Susannah Mccorkle