Many people think of me as a perfectionist, someone who polishes and shines each song and performance. I've always been bothered by that assumption.
I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn't allowed to go to the movies.
My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.
And I didn't, that's why my career was very short lived.
I get on the floor, and I can do things a woman a fifth my age can't do.
TV cameras seem to add ten pounds to me. So I make it a policy never to eat TV cameras.
It never occurred to me that I looked like a movie star.
When you sit down to design something, it can be anything, a car, a toaster, a house, a tall building or a shoe, what you draw or what you design is really a culmination of everything that you've seen and done in your life previous to that point.
. . . at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had.
Why do we pursue information that we know will never leave our heads?
But I'm here to serve people. I'm not here to wave my finger in people's faces and point out to them how terrible they are or what I hate about them or anything along those lines. That's not my place. I'm in no position to condemn anybody.