I just appreciate still having the longevity that I've had in my career.

I can be a better me than anyone can.

All of a sudden I feel more womanly, I feel like I got a figure. I was always really straight up and down, the skinny one in the middle, like that poster at Elaine's of the Supremes at Lincoln Center - it was done by Joe Eula. To me that's really a reflection of the way I was. I was just like a bean pole. Now I'm getting a few curves and I like it.

One thing you cannot control is nature.

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

Being a parent is very important to me.

I want to live in Paris for a couple of years. I'm dying to do the Josephine Baker story. I really want to be there and do it. It's certainly my intention to do it.