Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it.

You have to leave room for the other person's ego.

Lately I've been believing that music predates speech.

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.

I get myself a gig somewhere, whether it's in a club, whether it's in a bar, it doesn't matter, and I just work on New Year's Eve because I always feel it's very symbolic for me for the next year, for the new year.

It's scary times for humanity, it seems. But as my octogenarian father tells me, "The world has seen harder times, and the world will survive." The arc of history is long, and the mess we're currently making is just a blip.

I think that people in general, whether they are male or female, who are inhibited by the clichés of what women are or what men are, really don't like themselves. Because personality traits are not necessarily sexual.