Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.

It's quite an experience to have filming done in your house. When they come in, they photograph every piece of furniture and where it is so they can get them back exactly where you had them. You'd never know they'd been here.

I always feel a rise in my scalp or in the backs of my wrists when something is special, whether it be a song or a man.

When I recorded for Columbia, I could usually do anything in one take...I would invariably want to use the first take because that would be the one that was spontaneous and fresh.

I like to sing love songs.

DAY: I have a good job, a lovely apartment, I go out with very nice men to the best places, the finest restaurants, the theater. What am I missing? RITTER: If you hove to ask, believe me, you're missing it.

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit