Like having a foundation.

It’s like digging a field together: it’s hard work, not very glamorous, but you can stand back and think, “We did that.”

I was very shy, but I knew that this lady was special,…So I had enough nerve to ask for her phone number.

Essential, like oxygen.

Anything and everything.

I was a ticket taker at the Universal Amphitheatre, an outdoor music venue. I saw everybody – Joni Mitchell, Linda Ronstadt, Neil Young, the Eagles, Elton. But, after that, we had to clean the women’s restrooms and that was horrible. There was a lot of drinking, a lot of vomiting, a lot of very messy bathrooms.

Having breast cancer.

I was opening in a play in my 20s, and my agent came on opening night, brought flowers, took me out to dinner and then told me she was no longer going to be representing me.

I really admire Bonnie Raitt. She is a singer songwriter who has been doing what she has been doing for so many years and she recently won the song of the year Grammy for Just Like That. I loved the validation that creativity never stops, you can keep doing the things that you love.

Losing my memory. My mom had Alzheimer’s disease, and I never ever want to have that decline.