I do like to sing to God!.

In New Orleans, you can pitch a rock and hit a great trumpeter..

A weird thing about being an actress is that shooting movies doesn't feel like watching movies. It feels like being in a warehouse..

Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes..

When history calls, history calls..

Thankfully, the love of those around me helped push me forward..

I've never really liked L.A., because of its sprawl..

The only thing I was any good at was music..

Sometimes a slow gradual approach does more good than a large gesture..

To be adored is something I recommend..

I'm constantly being visually stimulated..

I watched a lot of movies. I was deeply influenced by movies..

Most things don't work like they are supposed to work..

I am at my best when I am scoring..

Every decoding is another encoding..

Everything was believed except the truth..

The work that I'm proudest of is the work that I'm most afraid of..

I can be whatever it takes to be a folksinger. Folk music to me, if we had to have a definition, is portable music. A lot of what I do is flash, gest….

There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing..

Coincidence obeys no laws and if it does we don't know what they are. Coincidence, if you'll permit me the simile, is like the manifestation of God a….

I was physically abused and I retaliated..