I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more.

It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion.

I am the proud and humble recipient of more than 30 honorary doctorate degrees.

One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.

One has to draw upon one's own musical thoughts and one's own musical acumen, and not to be afraid to let that come into one's work. Perhaps that comes with more experience, but perhaps it also comes with daring, and believing that you should.

If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to think about it, you're going to limit yourself. That's a very strange way to live.