I've been acting for so long it's more like - I won't say easy, exactly, but there's not the same angst with writing that comes about with acting. Writing - particularly when you're writing yourself, when it's you, when it's your life, you really can't hide.

I never really felt like I belonged in California.

I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his suggested that I try out for the first west coast production of Annie.

When I was turning 40, I felt that there were no books out there that hit the spot in terms of what I wanted to read.

People feel like they grew up with me.

I felt all the things that other teenagers felt. I was insecure in lots of ways, over-confident in others. I was very emotional. Excitable.

In life, there is always that special person who shapes who you are, who helps to determine the person you become.