I don't see myself as a diva at all.

I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.

It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in so many different ways.

My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.

Kirstie [Alley] saved me, in a way. [At the time], I had a terrible marriage, and I stayed at her house. She was wonderful - just a kind, big-hearted, filthy girl. Somehow she could be vulgar without being vulgar.

I loved Jay Thomas as Eddie LeBec. But there was a point where they [thought] maybe we would live together, and I didn't like the idea of Carla being with somebody because that would make you feel like [you're] not part of the people in the bar.

I don't see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don't define them separately, so I can't say one has helped the other, It's all the same thing. More than anything I love being on stage and performing