They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.

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

My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it's like awards don't mean anything.

Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.

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

I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.