The SWEETEST of all SOUNDS is that of the VOICE of the WOMAN we LOVE.

When I first started TOURING, we had a crappy van, and we would all share rooms. So for many years as a grown ADULT woman, I would share a bed with a bandmate, whether it would be Jimmy Tamborello from the Postal Service or Pierre DE Reeder from Rilo Kiley, just a pillow barrier between us sleeping on the same bed.

Any GOOD production team is going to allow an actor to breathe LIFE into the characters - that's why they hired that woman, that MAN, WHATEVER the case.

My MOM was the first African-American woman to graduate from the University of CHICAGO Law School, in 1946. She had leadership roles in the law, in government and the corporate world. She was a great role MODEL in that she felt anything was possible.

I've MADE it abundantly clear that I THINK that MARRIAGE is between a man and a woman.

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE Oprah Winfrey. What a great woman and a great businesswoman. She seems to really campaign for an expansion of global CONSCIOUSNESS. I THINK she's phenomenal.

Smile from your HEART; NOTHING is more BEAUTIFUL than a WOMAN who is HAPPY to be herself.

I think WOMEN gravitate TOWARD me because I am a woman producing and songwriting, and there's none out there. There REALLY isn't.

Because everyone is SOMEONE's CHILD, every WOMAN seems like someone's mother.

I would PRETEND to be the FRENCH lieutenant's woman. I was always a romantic. I STILL am, actually.

I'm FUN, ruthless, articulate, IMPATIENT, MAYBE a little cavalier. I'm a woman and a feminist. I'm transgender. I'm an actress, a reluctant writer, occasionally a potato-shaped model.