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

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.

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

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

By the time I was four, I would walk around the corner and wait at a local streetcar stop, get on the streetcar with somebody who looked like they could be my mother and go to the end of the line.

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.

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