Some people are upset to see you doing ordinary things. Those people, if they were a celebrity, they would have an entourage.

I never really wanted to be a star. I didn't like entering a room with all eyes on me. I still don't really like the attention of a birthday party.

I sang in art school, just to get money to smoke.

When I felt that fame - people were nosing me out - well, I moved on. I used traveling names; wigs if necessary.

Applause, applause, life is our cause.

Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about.

Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and shop, surely people could begin to see what I was getting at.