I've been blessed to be at the right place at the right time.

I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.

Success is terrifying. Like happiness, it is often appreciated in retrospect. It's only later that you place it in perspective. Years from now, I'll look back and say, ‘God, wasn't it wonderful.’

Once in a while I experience an emotion onstage that is so gut-wrenching, so heart-stopping, that I could weep with gratitude and joy. The feeling catches and magnifies so rapidly that it threatens to engulf me.

I don't think I have the image that say, Judy Garland has, or Bette Davis.

I always knew I had this voice, but it wasn't until I was in my 20s that I realized I had the power to do something with it.

I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely.