Some teachers should be put in prison for the way they either take advantage of women in their classes or destroy fragile egos. Be careful who you ask to help you when you're in the arts.

My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.

When I'm on the road with concerts, people ask me to autograph my CDs, but more and more they come up with the cookbooks.

My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.

I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music.

The great love of my life is music.

I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.