I love you - but don't touch me.

I was very independent growing up, but there were things that were bothering me that I never told anybody. I would talk to our animals at home.

In 1977, at age ten, I was cast on the TV sitcom 'Good Times.' My character was Penny, an abused child in desperate need of love. I really didn't want to do the show. I didn't want to be away from my family.

You don't know how many people come up to me and say, 'This child was conceived listening to you.'

Marvin Gaye is our John Lennon. The longer he's gone, the more young people appreciate his art. 'What's Going On' was a work of genius far ahead of it's time.

I study once in a while. But my parents never pushed us into anything. Until we were 18, my mother would make us go with her to Kingdom Hall, and when we turned of age, she let us choose what we wanted to.

You have to feel good about yourself.