I get to do all these really nice, little culty things. It seems to be the world that keeps inviting me back.

Now it wasn’t just that Xena was bisexual and kinda liked her gal pal and they kind of fooled around sometimes, it was ‘Nope, they’re married, man.'

Happiness is a choice. You grieve, you stomp your feet, you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.

When you decide to become an opera singer, it's a commitment that allows nothing else to interfere. Even your family - and I have a young daughter - has to take second place.

Treat everyone the same until you find out they're an idiot.

I am not intimidating. I am a woman's woman. I love hanging out with women. And people are really inspired by this show.

I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.