"There's always a question of duration, there's a question of who the orchestra is. No one is free to write what you want - you collaborate on a film score, and one of the good things is that someone else's work is motivating you."

"The budget is tight, and that is exactly where we want it to be and where we need it to be."

"When I'm up on stage, I don't think about anything except the song I'm singing. Anyway, the majority of my audience is female, and I can't think that many of them want to see me a French maid outfit somehow!"

"I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don't like those ideas to be things that are not subject to change, or subject to development, or subject to challenge."

"If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you die broke, and then see who shows up for the funeral."

"Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?"

"If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed - like chickens, like turkeys, like deer, like Canadian geese."

"I just wanted to play tennis. I started because I wanted to pick up another sport and then as I was slowly getting better I wanted to see how far I can go but I always wanted to be myself. I wanted to be original. I didn't want to copy anybody's style."

"You cannot isolate yourself from the crowd - even if you want to."

"I don't think you want to give all the answers, but I think every answer you do give should bring up another question, and not all questions should be answered."