the illusion never really dissipates that you can lose twenty pounds in one night by cutting out dinner.

It's a big deal for me to say I'm over politics.

I'm an artist, therefore I think I am sensitive to human pain.

I don't have an assistant. I make a lot of people around me my slaves, but no assistant.

I think the hill one has to trudge in order to understand a man's baggage is more of a trek than I'd like to take right now.

I do miss the stage. There's nothing like it, nothing. When I did my one-woman show and played the Palace and played the Gershwin and all that, I did - what? - eight shows or maybe more a week. Of course you can't do anything else, and you can't run quickly for a cab in the rain, and you can't have a drunken love affair. You can't do any of that. Because you've got to be perfectly healthy. And I guess I value enjoying my life a little bit more than the discipline these days.

I think it's much more important to know the truth than it is to make money on it.