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.

If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.

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

It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I've done.

I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.

I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

When I sing, people shut up.