It's a different world now: Stars come and go quickly, and there are so many of them. I read a statistic that all the record companies combined used to put out around 3,000 albums in a year. Now they put out something like 30,000!

All these rumors about [Tom Cruise] being gay. I don't believe it. I don't believe it for one minute. He hasn't been to one of my shows.

I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.

I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.

My daughter very independent. But if she's upset about something, she will absolutely let me know. She's great - a real tough cookie.

A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.

I celebrate everyone's religious holidays. if it's good enough for the righteous, it's good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.