I Want To Be An Integrated Woman.

I Wanted To Do Something Creatively, Having Been A Beached Whale For Many Months And Nursing My Daughter.

Not Everybody Wants To Have The Same Career. I Think What’s Difficult Is When You Have Two People That Do Something Very, Very Similar And They Both, Say, Want The Limelight. That’s Very Tricky.

So The First Job That I Got - My Father Got It For Me - He Had His Clerical Collar On, Was A Gay Bar In D.c., It Was Mr. Henry's Of Georgetown.

I Do Believe That We All Are, Fundamentally, Divided Creatures. Emotions Split From Intellect, Spirit From Flesh And Far Too Often Sexuality Is Disconnected From What We Feel, And Are, As Total Human Beings. But How, For Example, Can Anyone Have An Understanding Of The Virgin If They Don't Also Have An Understanding Of The Prostitute, The Saint And Sinner In One Body?

My Mother Says I Was Two-and-a-half When I Started Playing. My Father Was A Minister, And When He Went To Church In The Morning, She Would Put On Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole And Cole Porter Records. I'd Crawl Up On The Piano Stool, Sit On A Phone Book And Play.