There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best.

When I was single my career was my life, so everything I did was of grave importance and was greatly disturbing.

Love will wash you clean in the nights disgrace.

I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.

Who can I turn to? Who can I trust?

Singing other people's material was perceived, I think, as a weakness of my persona. The effect, though, was to make me dig my heels in and try even harder to combine the two.

I'm respected, I'm still working, what more could I ask?