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.

I was a personality before I became a person.

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

I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.

I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.

progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.

I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.