 There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe. |
| My career keeps shifting; I keep doing the next thing and it keeps growing. |
| I don't like to produce albums. I hate producing albums, as a matter of fact, because I'm an obsessed mixer and I can't leave it alone. |
| It's an interesting line that I walk. The AIDS crisis has done a lot for my songs and made them proliferate, and my songs have contributed a lot to that cause as well. |
| I'm not totally altruistic. I've always had great career ambitions. But it has to come out in an organic way. If you push yourself out beyond where you are supposed to be, there's this pressure. |
| I've written several deeply personal songs this year, which I really love. Some of them came out of intense sadness. This has been an extremely difficult year for me. |
| The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. |
| I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent. |
| I was talking to my spiritual advisor. I got a letter from somebody who said that they were about to kill themselves, but they listened to a song of mine and it saved their lives. |
| I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year. |
| I know a lot of people who have tremendous commercial success and they go directly for it. There's something that has always been difficult about that for me. |
| For Hunchback, we needed this live, gigantic choir. So we went to London and said, This is Disney! I need singers who can sing high D's, hold them for 18 seconds, and do it 60 times! |
