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

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

I want the best product for my audience, and if I don't care 100%, who will? It's my name, my likeness that goes out there.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

I don't like the word 'superstar'. It has ridiculous implications. These words - star, stupor, superstar, stupid star - they're misleading. It's a myth.

We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

What is dangerous about the far right is not that it takes religion seriously - most of us do - but rather that it condemns all other spiritual choices - the Buddhist, the Jew, the Muslim, and many others who consider themselves to be good Christians. The wall of separation between church and state is needed precisely because religion, like art, is too important a part of the human experience to be choked by the hands of censors.