I went to the University of Georgia for a year before I left, and then I went to live with Eileen Ford in New York for the modeling agency. I thank god I could do that because all the other kids were getting jobs doing other things, and when I got to New York, I was very blessed. I didn't have to stop and be a waitress. I started making money at a very young age and was just very lucky.

Watching myself still makes me uneasy - and when you're younger, you're even more unforgiving.

My dad was a musician, and that was his first love, and I think probably, to be really honest, it was my first love as well.

With some people, that love of music is just buried in them. It's so deep in them that they would play for free because they have to.

I cannot really be responsible for other people's thought processes.

I know that my in-box will be so full the day that I leave the planet. So you try to stay interested in life and bring some kind of comfort and pleasure to others on this planet as you're going through this journey.

I love to see somebody who wants to be the best they can be.