I find that I get very lost in certain things and that it is hard to let go. Often, certain characteristics stay with you from characters.

If you’ve looked at all the glamour magazines lately, all the covers are actresses. If they are on those covers, they are going to try to emulate models. That’s just the way it is.

In the ’50s, a lot of girls never saw beyond the wedding day.

I was always a bit flighty, I suppose.

Everyone is their own kind of lesbian. To think there’s a certain way to dress or present yourself in the world is just one more stereotype we have to fit into.

When I watched Ellen come out in ’97, my jaw was on the floor. I thought, There are some people who break the doors down, hold them open, and some people who walk right through.

Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist.

To this day I get mail from women who say, I went to law school because of your song. But I would hate to think out of the wide spectrum of things I have done...

Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money.

I really never stopped thinking about Ellen, because I just haven’t felt that kind of energy with anyone in my life.

I think back and marvel that my ambitions were so small.

I did comedy Francaise acting. When I was in a play with Michael Redgrave, I learnt to take the stage and have control of what I was doing.

I like working intensely, then going away and thinking about it, working out why it didn’t work and then coming back to it. It makes the work richer, I think.

In high school I had sex with girls quite a few times. They were straight women who I convinced to jump in the sack with me.

It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don’t speak English at all. It must be hell.

I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn’t come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better...

I did a lot of fast talking as a youth; I was pretty good at it. I was never talked into it-I was always the one doing the talking.

When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly.

Hindsight is wonderful. It’s always very easy to second guess after the fact.

Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.

The best part of learning any profession, when you’re really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is when you want to do it so much.

I saw Ellen and my knees were weak. It was amazing. And it was very hard for me to get her out of my mind after that. Then when I saw her that night, we...

I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them.

I didn’t know what to do with myself. I wasn’t excited by the teaching of the school. If they’d been intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive.

I think film likes me better than the theatre does for some reason.

It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine.

It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful...

I’ve always had a lot of energy. I was up and about and raging around all the time. And I did get tuberculosis out of it, finally.

I didn’t choose the fact that I was gay, but I did choose whether to live my life as a gay woman-that was the terrifying thing for me. Especially being a gay actress.

You live with the fear people might find out. Then you actually have the courage to tell people and they go, I don’t think you are gay. It’s enough to drive you crazy.