If a man wants to get it right, he's looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she's difficult or impossible. If he acts, produces and directs, he's called multitalented. If she does the same thing, she's called vain and egotistical.

To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.

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

Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.

I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.

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.

I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.