I had a very wonderful growing up. I was surrounded by loving people.

As cliche as it is, I was a huge Audrey Hepburn girl growing up.

And I just have a dream one day of dancing in Ibiza to 'A Little Bit Alexis.' That's my long-term goal.

For a long time, I thought I was going to go into law, but theatre just kept being so present in my life.

I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.

Life's That Way' was an extraordinarily difficult book to write, because it wasn't written as a book. It was written as a journal of events that were happening as I wrote it, without the space or time either to digest or analyze those events and without the hindsight and peace that writing in the aftermath would have provided.

I wasn't very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.

I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.