If I am able to sing again it will be through some miracle operation. There's a lot of work being done to help singers regain their voices, but in my case I actually lost vocal tissue so it's very hard for my chords to rub together and I need to replace that tissue. I remain optimistic but not tremendously so.

I think every young girl at some point in her early life wonders what it's like to be a princess. They like the idea of dressing up and the fun of it.

I'd like to be an original, to be myself and not a pale copy of anyone else.

In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and - SNAP - the job's a game!

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

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

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."