The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.

There are a few things that tend to infuriate me. One is ignorance, because I have become accustomed to speaking to very intelligent people like Gore Vidal and Al Franken on a regular basis, since dating Bill Maher.

In certain parts of the world - where I'm at right now in New York, you're going to pay a whole lot more. In Los Angeles, your average starter home is a million dollars. So I need more money in Los Angeles to live like a normal person. If I live in another city, Iowa maybe, I wouldn't need as much.

We know what happens to little black boys that have no dads; we've heard that, we get it. But no one is really saying that young women who are born without fathers have real serious issues especially when their mother had no father and the mother has issues.

People who know me, recognize a definite difference in my poise and in my personality, because I've grown.

My grandfather started his autobiography before he died; he never finished it. I would like to finish his autobiography because I finished mine.

I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.