When I sing, people shut up.

My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.

The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.

It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.

I don't think I'm tough in a so called tough way. I'm tough on myself.

When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.

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