Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that is kind of the point of it. It loses its point playing solo.

Solo concerts are murder, I find; I don't like doing them.

I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing.

I've always liked the effect of having somebody in there who hadn't the faintest idea what was going on.

My dad, for the first 15 years of my career, on every visit he made to a play or a film set, would find the oldest person on set and say, 'Do you think my son has a future?'

Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.

A lot of record company people, even though they're our age, want to be perceived as young hip guys, and they're hurting the business.

I'm not ambitious about my career, but I am ambitious with each job. I can be fairly annoying to work with.