Journalists ask me, ‘Why don’t you ever talk about sex in your performances?’ True, I don’t talk about sex – not in my personal life and not in my professional life. This is modesty.

I really just wanted it to be about the music, and get away from, ‘Who is she with?’ and ‘What is she wearing?’

You wonder why I only talk about my personal life. But that’s all I’ve ever done.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development

I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice.

Joking around is part of my personality, just who I am

I notice that my characters go out to dinner and have fun and take these great trips, but I spend so much time on their lives, I don’t have much of a personal life of my own. I have to sort of remember to fill out that little notebook on me.

If I want to go to a party with a few male friends, it doesn’t mean I’m gay.

Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.