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If you walk into a room and one hundred people say, 'You are a lovely, beautiful person', who isn't going to be affected by that? But you have to tell yourself not to value that. You have to tell yourself - or at least I do - to not become accustomed to hearing applause in any way, because I think that's dangerous.

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off.

Kids aren't scared to pat my shoulder when I come down the aisle to the ring.

What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.

People will clap to be nice. They will not laugh to be nice.

There is nothing like the high of being on stage and reaping applause, especially for emotionally needy people like me!

There's nothing nicer than getting a round of applause for turning up for work. It's amazing! You start work, and people clap. Do you know what I mean? And then they stand up and clap at the end.

If I go onstage, I want to give people everything they want and more. I'll wash their car for them on their way out.