If I can do concert recitals, adapting the repertoire to my needs, then no problem, that's good enough. But with operas, unless the right circumstances come up, my career is done.
A lot of my emotional issues come from dealing with the opposite sex. I've come to terms with the fact that I'll be retired before I can finally enter into a healthy relationship.
I do the Golden Globes because they say I can say what I want. I wouldn't have that at the Oscars.
I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.
I love outdoor sports, like volleyball, and I play them whenever I can.
I loved running. I can catch everything in the outfield. I could throw people out from the fence.
A trip to the picture framer's, with a selection of prints, is the most joyous outing I can imagine. I've spent more money on framing than on anything else I own.
I'm a big fan of outlining. Here's the theory: If I outline, then I can see the mistakes I'm liable to make. They come out more clearly in the outline than they do in the pages.
Producing is easier, I can just be at the set overseeing the story.
Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. They're all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. They're tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky.
I love Oxford Circus, so I can do Primarni, and I can do River Island and Topshop and Selfridges.
But really, anytime, I play on a practice pad as much as I can.
I love that I can dream about paisley, and then two months later, someone's wearing it. I'm basically styling America.
I can remember Bob Paisley was never happy.
I need boundaries. In the modern studio there are a bunch of instruments around me, and I can simulate anything I can't play, so sometimes the palette feels too big.
I just do what I gotta do and try to show people I can write some funny lyrics and play piano, and hopefully that'll make them dig further. I really believe in my form. That's why I haven't done a lot of telly, and I'm not a regular on any panel shows, and I'm not in a sitcom or all those things.
What's the worst that can happen? If it doesn't do well I can put on my big girl panties, deal with it and move on.
I can put together a pretty decent meal from whatever happens to be in the refrigerator and the pantry. I like the challenge of this sort of improvisation, the rigor of limitation and sometimes having to take a risk.
The only change I can really see is that I don't have to shop for pants in stores anymore.
FDR, as best as I can tell, had no kind of involvement at all in our conversion to the paper currency.
