It's all about giving back, helping people and encouraging people. I love to do that.

As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually.

I'm more contented and at peace with myself now than I was as a box-office queen. I'm less uptight. I've even reached a stage where it doesn't shatter me if somebody prints something bad about me.

Because I come from the theater, I use the images of the theater and of movies a great deal when I write. I see the story in my head. I have to break down the outline of a story first. I have to know where I'm going. Usually I have a good beginning and a good ending, and then I think, "Now I have to find my way through it."

Hopefully, I brought people a certain joy. That will be a wonderful legacy.

I would like to make one thing quite clear. ... I never explain anything.

I don't want to be thought of as wholesome.