My public life was so demanding that I wasn't doing the things that I deemed the most important.

I think the film [Dream of Life] is life-affirming.

I like photographing dresses in windows. I actually wore a lot of dresses in the '70s. I like them on other people now.

More than anything that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing.

Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.

I'd never had people drive me around, and then all of a sudden, if a car didn't come, I'd say, "Where's my car?"

I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.