With two sons born eighteen months apart, I operated mainly on automatic pilot through the ceaseless activity of their early childhood. I remember op….

I am a documentarian of what I do..

Africa has a genious for extremes, for the beginning and the end. It seems simultaneously connected to some memory of Eden and to some foretaste of a….

My junior year, I was in a play at school and five days before opening night, I still didn't know my lines. Opening night was a disaster. I was so em….

This album [Give the People What They Want] has almost been in the making for almost three years now. When we first began on it, my mother was sick. ….

I celebrated [my 50th birthday] by throwing a big bowl on the pottery wheel, then going for a water ski at the lake on our property in the Catskills,….

Someone like Ashlee Simpson, she lip-synchs on 'Saturday Night Live,' gets totally called out la Milli Vanilli, and no one really cares that much. It….

People always see the success but they never see what's gone on before it. Everyone thinks it happens over night..

Getting through the nights is the toughest part. Being alone. Not having her there to talk to..

I am Jewish, but Beethoven is my religion..

When you get up, the night and day is a contradiction. But you get up at 4 a.m. — that first blush of blue is where the night and day are trying to f….

I sat at the foot of a huge tree, a statue of the night, and tried to make an inventory of all I had seen, heard, smelled, and felt: dizziness, horro….

This was the way the night had cashed in. Choices had been made and things happened, and here we were. It was sad, and funny. My life was made of thi….

You gotta keep the funny intact..

I would go to bed every night and have dreams about having a time machine and somehow I'd have the ability to move through time and space freely, and….

"Antiques Roadshow" is my favorite show. Every Monday night I have one hour of appointment television. I get the popcorn out and tell my husband, "do….

Everyone's taste is different. But I think the best way to defend against regrets after opening night is to try your best to tell the story you want ….

Are you making life or is life making you?.

Anxiety is secretive. He does not trust anyone, not even his friends, Worry, Terror, Doubt and Panic ... He likes to visit me late at night when I am….

I've always loved to sing..

I was always on my oddy knocky..