Barbra Streisand at the 31st annual Kennedy Center Honors - arrivals at the Kennedy Centre, Washington DC, USA - 07.12.08

Streisand spends so much time working on projects, she can't bear to indulge herself in her films and albums once they're wrapped.

The star tells Newsweek, "I never watch my things again. I make an album and then maybe 10 years later, I hear a thing or two. If I walk into somebody's house or a department store, I always say, 'Can you please turn that off?'

"Because I spend so much time on it, before it's released, that once it's released it's on its own. I really don't want to listen to it."

Source: WENN