I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening... that's the art.

I feel like a million tonight - but one at a time.

I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn't want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought, "Maybe I'll get better and eventually please the person who wrote about my singing." But then I thought, "I probably will never please this person. I should just do what pleases me."

Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own - and I realized that there was another world. That's why I'm concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds.

A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I've chosen not to be.

The [film] business is run by men, and they're basically interested in their own species, and they're not so interested in women belonging to the human race.

What I have in me... it's not hard, and it's not cold, and it's not fierce ambition, that's not what it is. It's a drive [for success], but it's not a drive...it's being driven, it's something I have no control over. It's something pushing me, I'm not pushing myself.