I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.

Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don't.

I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.

I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.

The audience is the barometer of the truth.

New York critics - I hear when one of them watched "A Star Is Born", he talked back to the screen.

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