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After 'Spelling Bee,' I started landing more jobs... I got 'Candide' at New York City Opera.

I feel like I filled a niche for myself as a candy freak, trying to find candies all around the world that I couldn't find.

There used to be a candy called 'Bonkers,' which I believe to be the greatest candy of all time.

Candice is the original spelling of my name. I changed it to Kandyse when I was really young and first starting out in the business as kind of a joke. I didn't realize it would stick! I did consider changing it, but then it seemed too confusing, so then I asked them to change it back. Not too soon, however!

I love any kind of candy.

It wasn't easy in the 1970s when I initially started on my mission - to take yoga to the world. Nobody knew what it was in Japan. When I met Bill Clinton for the first time, he asked me if it was a form of yogurt that you eat! But I kept my faith and never gave up on my quest.

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.

You can't possibly fathom the ins and outs of a prepubescent beauty treatment until you've felt the strange but exhilarating tingle of a cottage-cheese-and-Pop-Rocks facial.

When I wasn't the flavor of the week or month or day, those were hard times.