In a theater you have that many more seats, so that many more people, and they are feeding you, telling you how far you can go or what you can do.

It's a very small operation, there are five of us traveling, and I like working with different audiences, seeing how different it is from one night to the next.

I'm here now in Chicago doing my own show, and I think Golden Girls is shown three hours a day here, and everybody loves it.

I think I always sang, I always used to listen to old Bessie Smith records, and Kate Smith. And Billie Holiday. Before television when there was radio.

They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement.

It's so rewarding when you hear the audience respond.