Because I'm pure inside, the music that comes out of me is a life-giving thing. Like water.
I'm clean and sober for over a year and no one seems to care! They're like, 'Oh, her dramatic weight gain. ' So, stop making fun of me!
I am not a woman. I am a force of nature.
Songs need to have a secret, cryptic, thematic thing about them, otherwise they are just messy and all over the place.
I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist.
You need to write on your own and produce your own life.
You’ve got to be prepared for the names they are going to call you compared to your male peers… You will be a floozy and a slattern. He will be virile and a ladies’ man. You will be a freakshow, a retching wretch, a sloppy drunk. He will be charismatic, vainglorious, a ferocious drunk and Dionysian. You will be indiscriminate and desperate. He will be generous, tortured and driven.
It's so difficult to feel comfortable in the body you have. You always want to look a different way, taller or thinner, whatever it may be. I still struggle with it. I think everybody does.
I cringed when I heard myself described as a Jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a Jazz vocalist.
To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
Television is a great job for a writer in the way that movies used to be, way before my time. Back when writers in Hollywood were on staff or under contract at any given studio and you'd write movie scripts and then the movies would get made within a few weeks, such that you could be a working writer in the movie business back in the '30s and '40s and '50s and have a hand in writing five or six movies a year that actually got produced. The only thing remotely like that in the 21st century here in Hollywood is working in the TV business.