I'm really lucky, I have my performing career so I can continue to do personal appearances. Most actors have to do a film. But I thought I would wait until I found something I really liked.A lot of my friends feel that I'm wrong to wait. They say I should have done My Bodyguard, but I don't think so. I think I've been right.

It's easier for me to sit with the producers and the writers and I give them my feelings and my thoughts and what I think I feel like singing about and then they go away and write it.

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

I have a lust for life.

All my gowns have trains on them. I make a train that goes on forever. I love long trains and then I stand there and twirl around and wrap myself up in it.

I've never been damaged or hurt by press. It's just that I think it's unfair to use your name in media.

A reporter once asked me if I ever cried. I wonder if people think I'm just as hard as a rock and have no emotions at all.