Occupation: Singer-Songwriter Birth: April 24, 1942
I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn..
For me, one of the most disturbing elements of the right wing's political agenda is that it believes that there is one correct spiritual and moral pa….
I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist t….
It's true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does..
Moviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time..
Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really appreciated each other's differen….
He (son Jason) doesn't see me as a (gay) icon, he sees me as his mother who touches his hair too much. No, I love being an icon to anybody. Equal rig….
I just don't like the idea of her singing my songs. Who the hell does she thinks she is? The world doesn't need another Streisand! (on Diana Ross).
Our role as artist is more controversial now because there are those, claiming the absolute authority of religion, who detest much of our work as muc….
It's very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will..
We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress..
I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl, he said: "I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can't. It's the be….
It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I've done..
The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough..
I don't think I'm tough in a so called tough way. I'm tough on myself..
I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life..
Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother ….
progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable..
I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you..
There's a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary..
Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression..