Rita coolidge

You know, I'm pretty much an open book.

My grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed.

I've got my whole life. There's a lifetime of experience, a lifetime of experiencing the road and the music and different players. It makes me a richer human being. I have a greater source of...

If I'm driving to L.A. and have anxiety about making the drive, if I've got Peggy with me, we're cool.

I was kind of known as a ballad singer. People would send ballads. Some of them would go over my shoulder and float off the top of my head, and I just didn't feel anything. Then I would hear a song...

Universal was absolutely marvelous about sitting down with me and listening to my input. It wasn't something where they chose a bunch of songs that were best sellers. They did a marvelous job on the...

I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge.

I say what's in my heart, and I do it in my concerts.

Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.

The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for the duration.