It's My Party And I'll Cry If

I Meet A Lot Of Young People In The Midwest, And I Saw What A Difference A Show Like In The Life Can Make To Their Lives In Some Of These Small Towns Where, You Know, There Are Probably Two Gay People In The Whole Damn Town.

I Don't Know Any Other Lifestyle. I Get Up In The Morning And I Really Do Feel That The World Is My Oyster, And I Start That Way, The Same As I Would If I Were Preparing To Write A Song: Put A Blank Piece Of Paper Up On The Piano And You Go For It.

I Think I Turned To Writing Really Just To Wake Up In The Morning And Be A Musician And To Have Something To Do, And Feel Like A Musician Every Day Even If I Wasn't Working.

I Can Remember In The Early 60s That There Were A Couple Of Really Dynamic Women Performers At The Time - Brenda Lee, There Was Connie Francis.

Actually, The Funny Thing Is, After All These Years, I've Got All These New Songs To Learn For The Show We're Doing At Joe's Pub, So It's Kind Of Fun To Get Down And Rehearse New Things, And Also Rethink Some Of The Older Songs, How We're Going To Do Them.