The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk about it. I can't bear musicals.

Audiences, whether they're seeing a film or a reading or whatever it is, a concert, they decide very quickly what kind of show it is, and then they judge it. They judge the rest of the thing by whether it conforms to their rules for what a good symphony orchestra would be.

History is an angel being blown backwards into the future

I am a New Yorker, one; I'm an artist, two; I'm a woman, three.

And there was a beutiful view But nobody could see Cause everybody on the island Was saying Look at me! Look at me.

When I was four, I was a kind of sky worshipper. I would look at the sky, and I wanted to evaporate into the sky - I loved the sky. I loved looking at the trees, just because they touched the sky.

The world is a strange and wonderful place.