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Q: Your bio tell us that you learned on your own in the streets? What did you learn and why the streets?
Sophia: I lived on the streets as a teenager. I had a devastating family experience. I learned the reality of a kind of brutality of survival that is terrible. Yet, I also encountered great kindness.

Q: Why did you chose the French song "C'est Mon Homme" (My Man)? This is a typical Parisian song which depicts the complete devotion and almost adoration of a passionate woman who is willing to accept everything from her man, even humiliation?
Sophia: The song “Mon Homme” is the very truth of my existence.

Q: What's so true about it? Did men make you suffer?
Sophia: YES I SUFFERED A GREAT DEAL FROM THE HANDS OF MEN, from the physical and psychological abuse of my father, to the streets, and rather abusive relationships. I have found love in the present physical form of a man with a very definite feminine spirit; a homosexual. Frankly, the greatest love of my life.

Q: Are you liberal or a rebel?
Sophia: I am both a liberal and a rebel.

Q: What do you rebel against?
Sophia: I rebel against man’s inhumanity to man, arrogance, the absolute stupidity and danger of man not recognizing that all of humanity sings the same song and shares the same God.

Q: What same song? Besides, there are billions of people who do not share the same god? Some do not even believe in God. Buddhists are very spiritual, people of peace and a great compassion, so are the Shinto, yet they do not believe in god. Do you consider them stupid and dangerous?
Sophia: Sing the same song is a metaphor for sharing the same eternal essence, spirit, soul, over-soul, energy.
God (the term as such) also denotes for me the eternal essence and oneness of all things. I am Jewish by birth and I practice Buddhism.

Q: What is the most pleasant sound to your ears?
Sophia: The most pleasant sound is my cats meow.

Q: And the most pleasing site to your eyes?
Sophia: The most pleasant site: my cats photograph and seeing elderly people that have grown old together.

Q: Do you believe in luck as a primordial reason and cause for a star's success?
Sophia: I think luck exists in the structure of karma, and destiny.

Q: Are you a lucky woman, Sophia?
Sophia: I do believe I have been lucky, their were times when frankly I survived against all odds, but somehow, their was always someone to help me in the eleventh hour.

The interview continues on the following page.