No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic.

I like having written better than I like having acted.

There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed.

Believe me, I didn't think there was some princely family I belonged to.

You have to constantly arrange yourself around them, and that can take up a lot of energy. I mean, you don't go, "Why don't you cook dinner tonight, dear, for a change, instead of writing a great song?" I loved what [Paul Simon] did with words. But I wanted to do some more of that, too.

Happy is one of the many things I'm likely to be over the course of a day and certainly over the course of a lifetime. But I think if you have the expectation that you're going to be happy throughout your life--more to the point, if you have a need to be comfortable all the time--well, among other things, you have the makings of a classic drug addict or alcoholic.

The trouble with getting introspective when you're pregnant is that you never know who you might run into.