If I could never work again and I could just listen to music and walk, I'd be very, very happy.

There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.

If I could have half the career of Diane Sawyer, I'd be a happy woman.

If I could get the respect of 14-year-olds, I'm happy. They're the toughest audience.

I don't listen to the news. I don't read the newspaper unless it's eccentric information - and the obituaries, of course.

It is impossible to know what fate will bring. If you love to write or paint, you will keep on writing or painting, and things will either work out or not, and you just have to keep being in the process.