Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.

The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of 'Carousel', and it was a very vivid experience.

You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?

No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.

I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.

I lost a very dear friend who lived with AIDS for about 17 years. Rejecting early treatments that were iffy, he thought he saved himself. I really miss him a lot.

Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.

I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.

When something isn't done, you want to do something about it.

It was like being high when you reach those high notes.

The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.

Then how can there be a final revolution? There is no final one

Victory! Catherine wanted to pull the front of her top over her head and run around the office making V-signs. Of course she wouldn’t do that

A body in motion can maintain this motion only if it remains in contact with a mover.

The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice.

The releasing of attachment to object and certain beliefs was already indelibly written as a very necessary step in my human progress toward being.

You keep plugging away--that's the way social change takes place. That's the way every social change in history has taken place: by a lot of people, who nobody ever heard of, doing work.

I lost my innocence at age eight, so I decided to do the same to as many young girls as I could.

Poetry is a reaching out forward expression, an effort to find fulfillment

My charitable donations go to educational efforts, such as Teach for America, Vanderbilt University, Berkshire School.

The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.