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've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.

I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a very decadent little person.

I have to be able to love somebody except myself and the theater.

Relationships have a nasty habit of reversing themselves; whatever has been done to you in a previous involvement you'll do to the next person you're involved with, if you get half a chance.

The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.

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.