Prima Donna is my kind of love song to opera but it's not the full experience.

I bemoan the fact that all my famous friends have places in St. Bart's and I have to go to Montauk.

I think I've done a pretty fantastic job, but of course I want to sell millions of records.

I believe in freedom Freedom's apparently all I need But who's ever been free in this world? Who has never had to bleed in this world?

I strive for what you do find in Shakespeare's work - that there is a definite humanity and a definite character behind the writing in the sonnets, and it's very real because it's so deeply personal. I try to aspire to that in what I do.

I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider.

I don’t really have a relationship with the guitar; it’s like my slutty lover, whereas I’m married to the piano