But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.

When I came out, I was 68, and I was totally prepared for my career to recede when I spoke to the press for the first time. What happened after that blew me away. I started getting more offers. My career blossomed.

My memories of camp - I was four years old to eight years old - they're fond memories.

I was in better shape when I went into boot camp than when I came out.

Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.

What is important is the reliability of my posts being there to greet my fans with a smile or a giggle every morning. That's how we keep on growing.