When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.
I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.
Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.
Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
I never sing in the shower either.
When I sing, people shut up.
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
My mother had a great voice. Not like mine, not like my sister's, not like my son's - a high soprano voice, but like a bird. I mean, really beautiful.
I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.
I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
