Human beings have to create hope. They have to. You have to have something you hold onto as being a possibility. Otherwise, why go on?

I was terrified, terrified in Songwriter, because there I was, New York Jewish girl, singing country-western onstage with Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. I mean, forget it. I was so terrified.

I know that some people work differently, but I have to work from the inside out. It doesn't matter how big the character is, there has to be a truthful core.

Human beings have to create hope. They have to. You have to have something you hold onto as being a possibility. Otherwise, why go on?

Trust your own instincts, go inside, follow your heart. Right from the start. go ahead and stand up for what you believe in. As I've learned, that's the path to happiness.

I have come far, but not far enough. It is still a man's world.

Good work is good work wherever it is.