I think that Stevie Nicks is one of the greats. Steve Nicks and Grace Slick and Janis Joplin have the real rock voices, to me.

I think the way I can sing the way I sing is because of the way I talk to my animals. I hit some really high notes.

I don't listen to the contemporary pop artists. They all sound alike, anyway.

New York seems to be thriving, which I'm grateful for. But I would hope that they would figure out how to negotiate the traffic and limit the pedicabs, because it seems to me that it's becoming a more chaotic city.

To transform the world women need to demand their place - which is not equal, but superior.

I'm totally Italian, but I'm not a diva. If you could see the way I'm dressed in daily life, that's not a diva. Appearances are so not important to me.

Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.