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

Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there’s great truth in the songs, and that’s what was so wonderful to find.

I know Mama Rose is a great role and I love having a chance to do it.

You’d look out and there’d be little babies watching the show, and boys and girls. They loved the cowboys, and they loved Annie. There were young people seeing the show for the first time. I stayed for two years because I enjoyed it so much.

I love Some Enchanted Evening, and If I Loved You. And as I sing them more and more, I find new favorites.

It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men’s Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience.

In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Anton Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!

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

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

Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.

“Into the Woods” was… a lot of running around in the woods! I can’t wait to see the show again. People didn’t realize it back then, but kids still come up to me-young people-and they talk about it. It really made its mark.

I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.

I don’t smoke, I don’t drink much, I don’t eat red meat. I stay out of the sun.

We’ve been listening to Wagner, which is so great.

Animals speak with pure affection. It’s important to me to get something going in NY so we can get to be a no-kill city, and give the animals homes and more attention and love.

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

It Might As Well Be Spring… I used to sing that as a young girl in my voice lessons. Then I picked it up again and it spoke to me in a whole new way.

I’m the same person. I don’t put on a face. I’m the same guy every time you see me.

When you objectify a person living with dementia, you dehumanize them. Once dehumanized, the person becomes a villain.

Nowadays I’m not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.

What I read is so distorted that I cannot believe that the person they are talking about is myself.

Every time I play with someone, not just a new person, but someone I’ve been with all along, that’s where I really learn.

You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.

It’s in my wheelhouse to be creepy, as a person.

The true measure of a person’s character is how one handles one’s failures, not successes.