After Bruno Walter, my career went in leaps and bounds. I have had 35 years of a career that is just incredible, and a wonderful time all over the world.

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

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

Making a living in the arts, though, creates so many jobs for other people.

I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family.

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