It's better to be interested than interesting.
I'm not somebody who runs from the press. I'm not coy. I appreciate the press I've had over the years.
When people realize you're not the stuffed shirt they think you are it's such a relief and you have people who really like to be around you.
I'm not saying it's safe to go sit out in the sun all day but I don't believe that sun is bad for you.
It's always amazing to me the idiosyncrasies people end up disliking others for.
Democracy has now become corrupted by the nature of the funders.
I'm not known as a singer, but in life I like to do things that are a bit beyond my reach to keep myself from slipping.
The problem with the heart is how it can have so many opposite feelings coursing through it all at the same time. It's really an inconsistent thing- appreciating something one minute and hating it the next.
My days all follow much the same pattern. They are structured and typical.
Andre Breton once said that a portrait should not only be an image but an oracle one questions, and that the photographer's aim should be a profound likeness, which physically and morally predicts the subject's entire future.
You go in and record and sing them some and you go back in and rerecord and sing them some more. That's kind of how I did this album [The Art of Elegance].