I have a great life, to tell you the truth.

My gift is that I'm not beautiful. My career was never about looks. It's about health and being in good shape.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Being old is such a treat!

I do miss the stage. There's nothing like it, nothing. When I did my one-woman show and played the Palace and played the Gershwin and all that, I did - what? - eight shows or maybe more a week. Of course you can't do anything else, and you can't run quickly for a cab in the rain, and you can't have a drunken love affair. You can't do any of that. Because you've got to be perfectly healthy. And I guess I value enjoying my life a little bit more than the discipline these days.

If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.

If I had a party to attend and didn't want to be there, I would play the part of someone who was having a lovely time.