I will take my coffee black / never snack / hang with the wolves who are sheepish.

I am always writing; if you want to survive in this business, you need to keep working, keep creating and never stop the output.

I was keenly aware that I didn't want to draw on too many typically doomed aspects of the fated singer. Whether it's Judy Garland or Norma Desmond, there is this tragic quality to older women that one can revel in, and you want it to be more three-dimensional than that. So it was important for the character to be strong and resilient, because there are so many victims in opera.

Guess the world needs both sun And the moon too Sad with what I have except for you.

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

Mowing your lawn is against nature.

After years of hotels, I'm horribly inept at cleaning up after myself.