I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.

Because you're responsible for [children]. You are there to protect them, not possess them. I tell them, "Watch me and you might learn something."

I'm pretty mutable as a human being, period - if you put me on Pluto, I can figure it out.

I create my own calm and I keep my balance, because I know that it's not really me, by myself... The Creator always gives me the energy.

André and I are still best of friends, always have been and always will be. When our 18-year-old son, Seven, started high school, we both agreed to be in the same city, so André is in Dallas all the time, and we're always all together doing something.

I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand.

I just keep going. When the water's too still, I start splashing around and things jump out of the water.