I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.

Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.

I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.

I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.

He (son Jason) doesn't see me as a (gay) icon, he sees me as his mother who touches his hair too much. No, I love being an icon to anybody. Equal rights, you know?

I just don't like the idea of her singing my songs. Who the hell does she thinks she is? The world doesn't need another Streisand! (on Diana Ross)

I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.