Everyone around me says, You're a genius! You're great! That's your voice! But I'm not sure if they're right.
I think I may well be a Jew.
No, I'm never confident with what I do, particularly playing and singing!
I've been able to chart out my professional life. But I can never chart out my personal one.
What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul.
I guess I am a rapper. It's weird to be called that, or tell someone that's your profession.
I have never had much confidence in my own work, and even now when I am assured (still much to my grateful surprise) that it has value for other people, I feel diffident, reluctant as it were to expose my world of imagination to possibly contemptuous eyes and ears.
When they say you're the best, I always remember that the majority of the audience probably thinks someone else should have gotten the award.
I don't really know how to describe my personal style.
Famous people I've interviewed - powerful people, brilliant people, people whom you look at and think, 'Seriously, do you not have pores?' - have turned to me after interviews and asked, 'Was I okay? I hope I was okay.'
It's kind of my biggest fear: thinking I know somebody I'm going to be, and then I don't. It's probably only happened to me once or twice, but that was enough for me to definitely not do a role unless I 100% can be that person.
My chin is weak. I find it hard to make decisions. For years I had been caught between the two stools of security on the land and rich-scented life on the exotic islands of literature. I wasn't really a writer. I had seen a strange beautiful light on the hills and that was all.
I don't know what people think of me.
I do not really know what is my interview and performance style.
I know everything except myself.
The original vocals had an awful lot of work put into them at the time, and I wasn't really sure that I could better them - I don't know if I have bettered them.
I don't know if I'm teaching my kids right, but you have to go with your own instincts. You can't be so sure that other people are going to do right by you.
..and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didnt know who I was
Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.
I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.
Really, I have no idea how I'm perceived in the industry.
The things that I'm talking about not knowing, they're not mysteries of the universe; it's just stuff I thought I would know by the time I was thirty-nine.
Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.
I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.
I've had three of my own children and spent my professional life thinking about children. And yet I still find my relation to my children deeply puzzling.
