"Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch."

"Everything does go in a circle."

"People can save the world by the way they think and by the way they behave and what they hold to be important."

"You know, I've been playing with my hair color ever since I was nine."

"You always have to remember - no matter what you're told - that God loves all the flowers, even the wild ones that grow on the side of the highway."

"When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song."

"My torso is short, but my arms are really long and gangly and my legs and my neck, and my feet and hands are really long, and I look like a duck."

"I absolutely refuse to reveal my age. What am I - a car?"

"I'm not gonna worry about what people think about me. I'm too busy. I don't give a hoot."

"Understand where it is you want to go. Then picture yourself there. If you can picture yourself there, then you can be there. Bottom line."

"I never had a rivalry with Madonna. You don't knock another sister, ever. There's room for everybody on this planet; you don't have to be like anyone else."

"You can laugh when I talk, but not when I sing."

"I come from a line of great Sicilian women, and their mentality is to endure and push through to the other side."

"I get the greatest feeling when I'm singing. It's other-worldly. Your feet are anchored into the Earth and into this energy force that comes up through your feet and goes up the top of your head and maybe you're holding hands with the angels or the stars, I have no idea."

"I've always wondered what it would be like if somebody from outer space landed with three heads. Then all of a sudden everybody else wouldn't look so bad, huh? Well, OK you're a little different from me but, hey, ya got one head."

"I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever."

"I do have a lot of difficulty figuring out what I want to be working on, but what's the alternative? To be one of those people who has a million things they want to do, and then never does any of them? And then where will you be?"

"Dick Clark was a really great influence in my career; he helped me a lot with his whole organization, and they were awesome to me at all different points - but one thing that I really disagreed with him on was when he said that what I do, pop music, is a disposable art form."

"I didn't have chemo."

"My mother has battled breast cancer three times."

"I am always looking for a great play and a great part to do."

"I'm a very big public school advocate."

"I'm fairly out of the loop when it comes to pop culture."

"Abortion is a hard thing for Hollywood to deal with because it is so controversial and you don't want to alienate half your audience by sending one message or the other."

"Women's health needs to be front and center - it often isn't, but it needs to be."

"The idea of making access to safe abortions harder and more expensive and more difficult, having to travel across state lines - that puts women's health and lives in jeopardy, which is something I think no one wants."

"Abortion is a right I feel must not go away, and I feel like people aren't mobilizing so much because it's so complicated and it's difficult to understand."

"The recognition factor is so much higher when I'm a redhead, so when I'm a blonde I can pass under the radar a lot more easily."

"I am not a redhead, I'm a blonde."

"I'd do a show about garbagemen if it was good!"

"I'm not adopting a baby."

"I'm so not a financial person."

"We've all seen the mom who devotes all her time and attention to her child and is so hungry for adult interaction that as soon as she's around another adult, she's not paying attention anymore."

"I've seen wonderful stay-at-home moms and moms who could use a little improving."

"I just want my relationship to be more for myself rather than a public statement."

"I understand that if I really need my hair to be nice, now I hire someone to do it, and I understand that putting on a pair of heels really makes a difference."

"Even though I'm over 35, I feel like so much more of a leading lady than I did when I was 30."

"I don't really want to get married to get married pretend."

"I always sort of thought, 'I'm probably going to get breast cancer. There's a really good chance.'"

"I don't define myself. I'm just a woman in love with another woman."

"I had a lumpectomy. It wasn't that bad. Six and a half weeks of radiation."

"I think TV is the only place left where you can have a midsize something."

"I am definitely as happy as I've ever been. Happier, I would say, than I've ever been."

"Women are half the population and they know how to take care of themselves, if they are only given access to health care."

"There are a lot of myths about gay people."

"While I don't often use the word, the technically precise term for my orientation is bisexual. I believe bisexuality is not a choice, it is a fact. What I have 'chosen' is to be in a gay relationship."

"I believe we all have different ways we came to the gay community and we can't and shouldn't be pigeon-holed into one cultural narrative which can be uninclusive and disempowering."

"My girlfriend is much better than I am at working hard then resting, and she demands that from me, too. She insists on having time when we don't do anything. We leave the housework and watch a movie."

"I've always been wary of marriage."

"I'm just a woman in love with another woman."