In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It's not so competitive.
My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.
Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.
Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
I only began to sing because I couldn't get a job as an actress.
Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
