With fame, I'm able to create more. With every success, you have more freedom to create.

I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.

If you saw me without makeup, you wouldn't recognize me.

When I got hoarse, the manager would say, 'Drink this. Joplin used to drink this,' and I used to say, 'Joplin? Joplin's dead

The more you practice and study, the better you are so I still practice and study all the time.

I have never been prouder to be a lifelong New Yorker than I am today with the passage of marriage equality.

There have been great things that happened to me.