For the last time, you cannot wear that cropped fleece vest

I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent too much time performing and enjoying it.

You always do that with movie musicals. You prerecord and then you lip-synch to playback.

My husband knows me better than anyone.

Leave every place you go, everything you touch, a little better for your having been there.

I've never minded being disciplined. I'd always rather have a quiet evening in than go to a wild party. Discipline for me has always been the foundation which leaves me free to fly.

All I care about really is writing something worthwhile for children, something that will engage them in some way and stimulates in them a sense of wonder.