There's been a tremendous amount of growth. An actress is not expected to continue to play her ingenue roles, you know, I've written myself roles to grow into gracefully, but there is no growing into gracefully in the pop world. Basically the reason I'm so unruly in this business is because I never wanted to be a human jukebox.

I was demanding of myself a deeper and greater honesty, more and more revelation in my work in order to give it back to the people where it goes into their liv…

She is of course well past the stage of having to prove herself artistically. She is in possession of one of the most extraordinary song catalogs of the past h…

Any time I make a record it's followed by a painting period. It's good crop rotation.

Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician.

Jane took me to another level because she's truly a wonderful writer. I'd put things together in the past and struggled with them. And then I met Jane. ... I w…

It's always the same thing that drives me -- a type of character or personality that I've never done before, or that allows me to try out some new acting techn…