It gets really tricky giving advice. The older I get, the less advice I give.

I'm always honest, whether I'm in the limelight or not.

To have gone through so much work to heal myself and have my mother not acknowledge in any way that she was sorry for what had happened to me, broke my heart.

And for anyone who ever thought that Ellen and I broke it off because of sexuality, you couldn't be more mistaken. And for anyone who thought my mother's prayers had anything to do with me marrying a man, forget it.

Some people like to hear and not see, so we have the radio. There are so many different ways that we can get and participate in the arts.

We're in a world where every single movie, if it has a woman in it, is usually wrapped around the woman wanting to be liked in some way, either in her life, or she's young, she's an ingenue, she's a hero, she's the lover of somebody, she's the grandmother, she's a chef.

For me to stay healthy in a relationship, the individuals have to nurture themselves