You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?
It was like being high when you reach those high notes.
When there's a terrible illness like AIDS sweeping through, you help people.
I know Mama Rose is a great role and I love having a chance to do it.
When I grew up in the '60s, your hair had to be straight and you had to be skinny and have no boobs, and it was like not my era.
Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there's great truth in the songs, and that's what was so wonderful to find.