I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.

All I have to do is what's right for me.

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.

The nice thing about us lot is that what we do is of no consequence. We don't do things that are important; we spend our lives doing things which are not important. That's what's nice about us, we're not pompous. We never do anything very bad that's gonna change the world. We're not serious, we're butterflies. We live for a day.

I don't like the compression on compact discs. It's lacking in air, and it's lacking in majesty.

I think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire.

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