The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother's front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister's farmhouse in Orange County, where chickens paraded outside the kitchen's screen door and hams were cured in the smokehouse.

Fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez was a major part of my early career.

Reality TV, although I'm a part of it, I think reality TV is a terrible thing.

I only watch MSNBC for the news.

I know what it is like to be brought up with unconditional love. In my life that came from my grandmother.

I suppose the most daring thing I've ever done is try to water ski. And that was not successful.

In my day you didn't speak until spoken to.