I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously, and that was my pacifier all through high school - that and painting.

Sharon Osbourne is such a blast and she's so, so bright.

In the darkest place, shed the brightest light.

Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!

I've got a Grammy and Emmy, I'd like to have a Tony.

I come from a line of great Sicilian women, and their mentality is to endure and push through to the other side.

You can laugh when I talk, but not when I sing.