I don't feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.

If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.

Doubt can motivate you, so don't be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.

I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.

Why don't you have a cup of coffee at least? I, um, I'm a little low in sugar and I don't have any cream, but it's real coffee.

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

Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.