Sometimes you kind of lose yourself in someone else's personality.

I do everything all wrong, but I think for me that's the best, because I don't think I have a voice.

It's only a thimbleful of a voice, and I have to use it close to the microphone. But it is a kind of oversmoked voice, and it automatically sounds intimate.

I think any entertainer just sort of goes along with whatever comes along.

If it's an excellent script, I enjoy it tremendously, the acting part of it.

I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything.

If it's a terrible script, it's a terrible bore.

I think that's one of the most difficult things in any marriage - in order to build anything, you must be together. You can't build anything over the telephone.

I prefer the things around town. I'm not one for going out of town too much.

The acting was first. As a teenager I was an actress; and then I came back as a singer.

[If homes belongs to couples or roommates]: I think homes should reflect the individuals and their individual taste rather than someone else's.

Learning to treat ourselves lovingly may at first feel like a dangerous experiment.

I like the sky. It's rational to me in a way that life isn't.

I am going to tell you a secret. Everything is about wanting. Everything. Things happen because of people wanting. Watch closely, and you’ll see what I mean.

I'm basically in every band I ever was in, and the songs, I still mean them all. I don't take anything back, so I do look after them to some degree. But my main focus is on what I'm doing now.

It seemed unthinkable for me to leave the world forever before I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce

Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

We all make the mistake thinking that how you look makes you more worthy of love.

All evils are equal when they are extreme. [Fr., Et tous maux sont pareils alors qu'ils sont extremes.]

I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.

I want to love, and be loved.