It's a lot of fun to just say to people, proudly, 'I get to play the First Lady.' It's just fun to say.

When you guest-star, you're usually at the center of the dramatic arc, so that's fun.

Nothing is all good or all bad, nothing is black or white, everything is just messy and human and difficult.

I wouldn't make it through the day without singing. It is my solace and my meditation and my release. It lets me know how I'm processing things, what I'm processing, if I'm out of touch in some area.

Love is a true unconditional space to me. To love someone or to be loved is to be seen, and I think, gosh, as humans, all we want is to be seen, to be heard, right? To be valued. To be respected. But mostly just to be held in a safe, unconditional space.

There's a lot of life on the planet that needs love, wants love, deserves love, in whatever capacity we are able.

I feel it is a blessing, a duty, an honor, that we give the love that we have, and we share the lives that we have with our fullest heart.