I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.

I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.

I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.

I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'

My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?

I'm a terrible lip-syncer anyway because I have to be in the moment, and I can't lip-sync to something I recorded three months before.

I also have intense relationships with furniture... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.