The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.
Making a living in the arts, though, creates so many jobs for other people.
It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes.
Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard.
I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends.
I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family.
If somebody asks me to recommend a young, good singer, I always do.
There is a communication of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk. And that is my answer when people ask me: Why do you write about hunger, and not wars or love.
That's the strange thing about making a record. You can be in one mood for an hour, put it on a record, and you're remembered that way.
It's when you don't need something that you tend to lose it.
I went to Our Lady of Mercy, parochial school and I started Fordham Prep, but that only lasted about a year and then I - to me, it was like going to some kind of concentration camp. I was not very happy. And I only went there because that's where my brother went, really.