Melody Gardot

Why Jazz? This is just the way I see music.

The first time I went to Paris, it just felt like I was home. I didn’t question it.

Baby I’m a fool who thinks it’s cool to fall in love!

The first jazz I heard was Duke Ellington. I was learning to play classical music, but my teacher swapped out those lessons for jazz lessons because I had started adding grace notes to Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff.

I think that age is irrelevant. We’re all pretty much spiritual beings – I consider myself to be about eighty-five. I feel like I’m ancient, like two thousand years old.

Jazz is a sideways glance at music. It’s like being an architect, knowing the basis of design but understanding that the façade can be whatever you dream. I’m a free person. I don’t want to be tied down.

I have insecurities, of course, but I don’t hang out with anyone who points them out to me.

Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.

Please stop debating about whether or not I aged well. Unfortunately it hurts all 3 of my feelings…

I’m here to show you imperfection. The beauty is in the imperfection.

I am an eternally deluded person. No one is as deluded as I am. How clear this is to me when I do zazen!

I’ve never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women, and I’m very proud of that.

At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter what anybody else thinks, as long as you’re happy.

Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart […] I went from VERY successful businessman, to top T.V. Star to President of the United States (on my first try). I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius….and a very stable genius at that!

Age wrinkles the body; quitting wrinkles the soul.

Didn’t want y’all to call me fat, so I got liposuction. And they gave me opioids.

Sorry losers and haters, but my I.Q. is one of the highest -and you all know it! Please don’t feel so stupid or insecure, it’s not your fault!

Don’t ever call a girl fat. Even if you’re joking.

There’s no person in the whole world like you, and I like you just the way you are.

I’m also honored to have the greatest temperament that anybody has.