My favorite movies of all times is 'Doctor Zhivago,' and I love 'Gone With the Wind.' I'd love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation.

I didn't know any gay people in my childhood.

I think [music and acting], they are connected, all that stuff. It's your emotional self, is pretty much how you do it, I think, from whatever place you do it, whether you're acting or you're singing.

I'm not a politician. And I don't want to be.

Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.

I love the accomplishments and the awards that I've received through the years. But I've always worked more for the rewards than the awards. I've always counted my blessings before I've counted my money. I'm glad that new dreams come to me everyday.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.