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"I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years."
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"For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy."

"Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive."

"It wasn't that I ever knew I'd be at the Met for 20 years, or 30 years, or 40 years, or anything like that."

"Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves."

"Every two or three years I knock off for a while. That way I'm constantly the new girl in the whorehouse."

"We were all ruled by the studio system. I signed a contract for seven years."
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"Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice."

"One of the advantages of not having a record contract is that you can make your own mistakes, you don't need somebody else to organize them for you."

"My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to move out to California, and my daughters are both out of town."

"I had sat in one day in Central Park with Bonnie and Delaney, and Duane was playing with them, so I asked if he wanted to work on an album. You never had to say to him how to play the guitar."

"When you get cancer, it's like really time to look at what your life was and is, and I decided that everything I've done so far is not as important as what I'm going to do now."

"For me Brazilian music is the perfect mix of melody and rhythm. It just bubbles rhythmically. If I had to pick just one music style to play if would be Brazilian."

"The music we're playing now is based on my heritage, which is Russian, Romanian and Hungarian."

"What I try to do is produce an atmosphere where musicians want to invest in what they do and give to the recording. I hire those musicians who I know will play something creative and interesting."
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