Idina Menzel Defends Herself After Rocky 'New Year's Rockin' Eve' Performance

— -- Idina Menzel's performance on ABC's "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest" provided one of the most talked-about moments of the show, but not for the reason she'd like.

The Broadway star, 43, was performing "Let It Go," her big number from the movie "Frozen," but critics bashed the way she hit a high note at the end of the song.

Menzel responded on New Year's Day by tweeting an image of an interview she gave last year, in which she gave her definition of success.

"There are about 3 million notes in a two-and-a-half-hour musical," she said in the piece. "Being a perfectionist, it took me a long time to realize that if I'm hitting 75 percent of them, I'm succeeding."

In the interview, which appeared in Southwest magazine in November, Menzel also stressed the importance of "staying in the moment" and "connecting with the audience in an authentic way," in addition to dealing with technical aspects of the of a show.

"I am more than the notes I hit, and that’s how I try to approach my life," she said. "You can’t get it all right all the time, but you can try your best. If you’ve done that, all that’s left is to accept your shortcomings and have the courage to try to overcome them."