Being just a chorine was not what I wanted to do, so I was probably the first person in the chorus to leave. When I saw your cabaret show two years ago, you told an great story about Dorothy Fields, who was the lyricist for Seesaw. It was in the middle of winter. Half the company had hepatitis, half the company had just been fired, everybody was really cranky, and I was really missing my boyfriend. I told her how horribly I was missing my boyfriend.
Romance is important.
Writing came to me late. I was an actress, and a folk singer in my spare time. I didn't start songwriting until the mid 70s when I was on the road with Brel. I didn't perform anything that I had written until 1975 or 1976, when a friend of mine, who had a nightclub, made me get up and sing some of my own material. People liked it, and that was the first time I had any idea that people might be interested in my music.