If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!

Most of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're extremely aggressive.

If you had told me when I was 18 that I wouldn't have made it until I was 29, I would have said, Forget it.

I like music to soothe me.

To this day I get mail from women who say, I went to law school because of your song. But I would hate to think out of the wide spectrum of things I have done in my career, that's all I would be remembered for.

If I have to, I can do anything.

Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time.