My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.
“If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.”
“My female writers have always been my backbone. I had a writing room of six women for five years so I know what women do. Cultivated by me, by the way!”