She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great-but how to laugh through it.

I have two false hips, a wired-up right knee, two crushed discs and scoliosis. If I don't dance, I seize up.

I know that. I'm having a ball. I'm not slap happy. I'm just filled up with joy and with peace and with all kinds of things that have eluded me for quite a few years. And they're back and they're thriving.

I feel like I haven't done my best work yet. I feel like there's a world of possibilities out there.

What I'm saying is that I tried very hard to give them my reality and my reality is kind of interesting.

If we had a hard time, my mother would sit me down and we would talk about it, and she kept talking and kept processing until we started to laugh about it.

Initially, I wanted to be an ice skater, but then when I was 13 I saw Bye Bye Birdie, and that was it - I wanted to be on Broadway.