Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.

In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot.

Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.

[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.

Wisdom was a teapot, pouring from above. Desolation angels, served it up with love.

The thing I've always liked about performing is that I decide what I want to wear, whether I want to comb my hair.

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.