Now that I’m at this end of my career, I’m gobsmacked that I’ve managed to cling on for as long as I have.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Having a career that’s lasted 47 years, especially when I felt like an impostor for so many of them.
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Participating in a transformative movement that advocated human dignity and changed America forever.
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The double marathon on the last day of my 27 marathons in 27 days.
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To still be working.
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Pamela Anderson, because I love her strength and honesty and vulnerability at the same time.
I wouldn’t take back the drugs, but there are a few boyfriends that I’d edit out of my life.
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“You sing like a goat.” When I did my French album [Voila], this French woman – a supposed friend – said to my face: “It’s fantastic but, how come you sound like a chèvre?” It was like someone had hit me in the stomach.
As a singer who did everything her way, no compromise.
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