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

It's very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.

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

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really appreciated each other's differences: Short, tall; Democrat, Republican; black, white; gay, straight-a world in which all of us are equal, but definitely not the same.

As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.