If I simply do what I've always done, it's never failed me.

Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.

While we're over here blocked up in our departments and locked up in our own judgments and dealing with our own crazy problems, they're over there dealing with equivalent problems. One of the things that I am so frightened by lately is that men are having just as difficult a time striking a balance as we are.

I do what I want. I try to be nice to everybody. When I fail, I try to apologize.

If I were a guy, it would be, you know, just a different set of problems I have to carry along.

I think I can define my entire life, virtuosity and business philosophy down to the core fundamental that I absolutely hate being told what to do. But like any artist or any human being out there, I desperately want to be loved, and I spend my entire life trying to balance those two facts.

How you sound. How you look. Are you fat? Those are things that could be really irritating.