David Shire and I have been happily married for 21 years! We have a 12-year-old son. David is a genius. He writes the most magnificent music and he is a devoted and loving husband and father. I am so blessed!

You have no idea how hard it is to grieve and fall madly in love at the same time.

Don't you see yourself in every picture you love? You feel a radiance wash through you. It's something you can't analyze or speak about clearly. What are you doing at that moment? You're looking at a picture on a wall. That's all. But it makes you feel alive in the world. It tells you yes, you're here. And yes, you have a range of being that's deeper and sweeter than you knew.

I never knew that I had an unusual voice. It wasn't something anybody really pointed out to me.

I went to Midwood High School in Brooklyn and then to Brooklyn college for 1 1/2 years.

I was chomping at the bit to get my career started - so after I took all the theater courses at Brooklyn College I enrolled in a two year program at AMDA in the city (The American Musical Dramatic Academy) I was there for 6 months and loved it.

It doesn't matter how your child comes to you. I've never felt such joy and such love. It's the most beautiful delicious little thing.