Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.

I didn't know anything about breast cancer when I got it.

I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised.

I take the longest to get ready of anyone. I've been going in two hours before the show every performance.

I've been allowed to develop my own character, which I'm still working on.

The first clothing line I had was called Very Rue. Then we changed the name and moved to QVC, and the name became A Touch of Rue.

We have one cat. I had eight cats and six dogs in Los Angeles.

We stopped doing my clothing line about five years ago, so it isn't available anymore.

Our show was - it remained - you know, kids could watch it and laugh at it. And they wouldn't know - they wouldn't get the jokes. But they would laugh at it. So they tell me now they have grown up and they're watching it. Now they get the jokes. But we didn't say anything blatant.

The matinee audiences are different because they're mostly kids, a great percentage kids. So they respond to everything differently, but I understand what they do respond to.

They gave me four weeks, and I asked if the first week could be just music with the two main conductors. So, the conductors came over to my home, and we worked in the music room, and I learned my two little songs.