Wherever there's a human being there's going to be somebody that tries to hold you back.

There are certain realities we must speak of with our children that were not present when I was a child.

I'd love to have a program like 'Dr. Laura.' I studied psychology at the University of Miami, and when I rode the bus home from school, perfect strangers would strike up conversations with me and end up telling me their life stories. I think they could sense that I was studying to help people. That, or I have a face like a priest.

I'm very appreciative of, and I also, having traveled the world, know that the United States is one of the few places where there really are no limitations. As long as you've got drive and hard work and a good idea and you can get out there and do your thing, there's no social classes, so in a lot of countries there's a big history of regardless of how much money you may make, there's still that little thing where you're not in society. That doesn't exist here.

Music has been one of the most beautiful things in my life and will always be a very big part of who I am and what I do.

Family has always been the number one priority no matter what happens anywhere else.

My mother had a beautiful, soothing voice that made me melt.