I remember when I was a kid watching my mother jam herself into her girdle - a piece of equipment so rigid it could stand up on its own - and I remember her coming home from fancy parties and racing upstairs to extricate herself from its cruel iron grip.

The music is the message the message is the music. So that's my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me - a little ministry called love and happiness.

God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.

I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase just take the first step.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs but there will never be equality in the servants hall.

I've had weight issues all my life. I've been on all the diets: Atkins liquid protein Scarsdale diet. Now I go to the gym often. I'm always on the StairMaster and I do weights.