I probably am more shy than people realize. But I'm shy when I leave a studio and I am just myself.

The years after 50 can be a time of great productivity, meaningful work, pleasure, creativity, and innovation. It's a huge opportunity.

I've always had a lot of ambivalence about fame and celebrity.

I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations.

My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer.

I was an unusually private person - in a way, kind of insufferably so. I think I thought the celebrity thing when it happened was a temporary phenomenon, and I was above it.

I came back to work when my children were two months old. At that early age, they seem to have little awareness of anybody but their Raggedy Ann dolls, so it wasn't a matter of them missing me. I was missing them.