In the old days it was important, but not as important as it is today, to keep making success after success after success. It's terrifying today. You can maybe have one so-so movie but you've got to come back with another that's huge, if possible, and that must be very, very difficult for young talent.

My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.

Singing has never been particularly easy for me.

After all, children are children no matter their background.

Steadiness is coming up short 19 times and succeeding the twentieth.

Of course, you can say it backwards, which is dociousaliexpilisticfragicalirupus, but that's going a bit too far, don't you think?

Words are what make the song. I get a personal vision about what the lyrics are about.