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"Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it."
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"I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me."

"I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it."

"Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it."

"It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written."

"What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?"

"Was there ever such stuff as great as part of Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you? - What? - Is there not sad stuff? What? - What?"

"I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition."

"It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done."
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"The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss."

"When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman."

"When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out."

"At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck."

"What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I'm about as a person and as a writer."

"And ultimately the people who produce my records, they know that they're here to serve the purpose of me expressing who I am at this period of time and augmenting that or pulling it forward and I love that process."
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