When people pay to see you live, they connect with you on a much deeper level than people who just buy your records.

I was looking for something within Judaism that had a spiritual nature and not just a religious nature. So my trainer at the time was the one who took me to the Kabbalah center on my 40th birthday. I was like, "Oh, this is so cool." I was just ready for it. I was ready for something different.

I'm a sexual person. A lot of different people turn me on and have over the years, and I've always wanted to make it very clear that this was not coming from some sort of antimale point of view.

I don't like surgery. I don't like elective surgery, I don't like surgery that you have to have.

I really thought I wanted to be a musical-comedy star, but I lived in Phoenix and didn't want to go all the way to New York and be that far away from home. So I thought maybe I'd be a rock 'n' roll singer or an opera singer.

If you come home to a household of chaos and anger and fear, you're not going to feel protected from the world.

The real terrorist threats are George W. Bush and his band of brown-shirted thugs.