My mom said I was a handful. Now I'm helpful.

If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.

I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging.

Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol; that's part of society.

I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.

Without my women friends, I wouldn't know anything. They've been my teachers and my mothers. My mother was a wonderful person, but she didn't give me a lot of the stuff I needed to advance myself as an adult woman. I have a really strong group of girlfriends, and we share a lot with one another - the complications of raising children, marriages, personal and physical struggles.

It was during a cosmetic procedure that I first had painkillers.