I will sing in San Francisco if I have to sing in the streets, for I know that the streets of San Francisco are free.

I am old, I am fat, but I am still Tetrazzini.

There is no honour in exploiting people and there is also no honour in exploiting animals! Using people or using animals for our own interests is nothing but an arrogant immorality!

I hate news and information and anything that threatens to puncture the bubble of oblivion in which I live.

It is the most powerful creation to have life growing inside of you. There is no bigger gift.

I write so slowly, I could write with my own blood and not hurt myself.

I'm not artistic nor am I all that creative.

We have not looked at any particular movies [in creating War Horse], but again, it's hard not to see the similarities between those movies [because of those filmmakers' influence on the industry].

I'm a really humble person and I'm a really on-the-go person. For me, it's never that serious.

I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.

I had somebody say to me once, 'You can't make the kind of music you're making and call yourself a feminist.' The door was slammed on them swiftly after that.

Pitching in the big leagues is a dream. Preparing to pitch in the big leagues is a nightmare!