I can't cook, at all. I would not know how to make coffee. I took cooking classes, so I know how to make chocolate soufflé, but ask me if I want to make soufflé. I let somebody else make the chocolate soufflé, and I eat it. I found that, when I took cooking classes and tried to cook, I didn't want to eat it. The joy was gone. I was always filthy with the stuff, and then had to clean it up. I don't like that.

I worked in a Chinese restaurant.

I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.

I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl, he said: "I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can't. It's the best film I've seen since Citizen Kane".

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

The audience is the barometer of the truth.

I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations.