When you're the spokeswoman for a weight-loss program, everything is witnessed. I weigh in once a week with a witness. I have to sign an affidavit saying I cannot have any surgeries.
I'm not saying that it's wrong to make huge Hollywood films but it's just a different kind of feeling, a different sort of pleasure.
Saying that you spend Christmas alone is, to most middle-class Americans, akin to confessing a terminal illness.
I even got letters form kids in hospitals saying the music is what keeps them going, and that really touched my heart.