I don't like the word 'superstar'. It has ridiculous implications. These words - star, stupor, superstar, stupid star - they're misleading. It's a myth.

I can't stand to see red in my profit-or-loss column. I'm Taurus the bull, so I react to red. If I see it, I sell my stocks quickly.

When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.

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

When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.

I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.

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