I was a very sickly child. My parents were immigrants. They were not decorous. They were not discreet. They always thought I was gonna die.
Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.
I have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.'
You can start making up any kind of story if you want to.
I'm not jaded. I never have been jaded. I've always been surprised at my success. I've always enjoyed it.
In another project I worked on just a few years ago, a staging of Peter and the Wolf, which I translated into Yiddish and sang on a stage in New York City. Thank God very few people knew I was doing it! But the kids in the audience loved it - even though it was all in Yiddish.