Quotes

[8/29/99, interview in The Arizona Republic] I've thought about stopping working, just briefly. Sometimes I stop and think, "Wait a minute. When I finish this, what do I do?" But I don't have what normal people call a home. There's no place where I can go and grow my radishes. That's pretty weird when you think about it.

I love singing. There's nothing quite like that something that happens between an audience and performer. It's like communion.

I'm not one of those people who all the time rummage around in their past and find stories. Not very long ago I went back to Wales, where I spent a lot of my childhood, and it's almost not there anymore. It's a strange thing looking back. Of course, our past is what makes us who we are, but I don't dwell on it, frankly.

[on her life as a child star in the 1940s] Because of the circles I mixed in, professionally, I knew about things that children in those days were shielded from. Yet, at the same time, I was still very young in my own experiences of life. It was all rather peculiar and confusing.