I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.'

France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.

I do take care of myself; I get my nails done, and I have a skin doctor, but that's it. I'm clean and groomed.

The equipment you've got really dictates what you're going to do. When I started touring, there were no monitors, so I had to take the sound from the hall, and of course it was on a delay, so I would sing, and then I would hear it back, but later. It was very weird.

When you split from someone, it doesn't have to mean that you don't love them anymore, you realize that the period of that particular romance is over. One always has to get out before one gets kicked out.

I got my interest in Lotte Lenya and the Brecht-Weill canon from my parents. And I love classical music - I got that from my parents. I love Cole Porter - that I got from my dad.

I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.