As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.

I didn't have any career design. I was not thinking about publishing or doing a record. I was just working. I was evolving. I wanted to really comprehend what I was doing before stepping too far out.

I've lost lots of men in my life, besides my mother, which is a whole different loss.

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

What helps me is watching other people negotiate loss. I think about how we dropped a bomb on people in Hiroshima and 150,000 people were killed in one night. Those people had to mourn and they had to rebuild their city right away.

Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.

[Steven Sebring] presence was also nice for my children, who, having just lost their father, quite naturally craved warm male attention. They gravitated to him right away.