I have been all over the world. I have met some wonderful people, lots of them very simple, whom nobody will ever hear about, but who have been fabulous to me.

I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends.

I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation.

Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council.

It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes.

I have been all over the world. I have met some wonderful people, lots of them very simple, whom nobody will ever hear about, but who have been fabulous to me.

My book has a lot of parts of my life that people don't know about.