"The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen."

"You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record."

"I didn't go to high school. I never felt connected to people my age."

"When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am."

"I go by instinct - i don't worry about experience."

"I'm not weird, just different from people who aren't different."

"Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President."

"Art does not exist only to entertain -- but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for the truth."

"You've got to discover you, what you do, and trust it."

"I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations."

"I tell you what I envy about people in love - I'd love it if someone knew me I mean really knew me. What I like what I'm afraid of what kind of toothpaste I use." - Rose Morgan"

"Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world."

"Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work ... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work."

"As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights."

"Life's too short. Start with Dessert!"

"My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?"

"My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young."

"In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It's not so competitive."

"I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things."

"It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified."

"I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build."

"When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that."

"When I sing, people shut up."

"I never sing in the shower either."