Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.

It’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly.

The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country's immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.

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

I only began to sing because I couldn't get a job as an actress.

What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.

I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.