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.

What's important for me is to give my daughters a well-rounded education and a mixture of people in their lives. They'll make their own choices. I think they would be good in show business.

I spend too much money on my sets and my gowns. I think the presentation is important. I don't think people want to see the old show all the time.

Being a parent is very important to me.

I'd traveled a lot, was going temporarily insane and became very successful, but there was no one to take that all home to.

My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches' but in fact, the Ross's were never raggedy.

Icon. What is an icon? When someone is iconic it means they have established a certain kind of legacy possibly, and I think it does come with time. It's something in the arts, I feel. Maybe not, maybe it doesn't have to be in the arts exactly. I'm not really sure. But I don't think you are born an icon.