I want to be an integrated woman.

When they say take from my body, I think I'll take from mine instead. Getting off, getting off while they're all down stairs.

I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.

I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.

Everybody told me this 'girl on the piano' thing was never going to work.

It's not as if the stories merge to a point where you think they are your life, but you do let them in the front door and the back door, and it's okay that sometimes certain characters stay for dinner.

I'm a winter girl. I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody's ready to slit their wrists.