I certainly went to New York because I was searching. Most people who go to New York are searching.

All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.

I'm from the South, so I tend to tell stories. That's how we express ourselves.

Usually I like playing other people. I like finding myself through other characters. But when you do cabaret, you are yourself. I think it's the most fun, and I tell you, if somebody had told me that, I would have done it fifteen years earlier than I did.

I've got all these great broads in me, all these character women. I was playing a torn-down stripper at twenty-five on Broadway, and now I fit the shoes.

My happiest times in the theater are when I do ensemble pieces. I really got into theater because of that closeness.