I don't think I'm tough in a so called tough way. I'm tough on myself.
Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.
It's true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.