Paradise is a state of mind.

I describe my look as a blend of mother goose, cinderella, and the local hooker!

I never know tomorrow what I might be doing. I just ask God to lead me and show me and direct me and help me and support me in it. So I just wait to hear the call.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It's not true that I'm happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.

I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.

I'm a singer, a writer and an actress - when I find something that I feel good enough about doing.