I think the deepest problem is between my parents and me. I just don't know if it will ever be the same.

When I wake up, I always thank God. I'm grateful for another day, and he's allowed me this tiny thing that we should be appreciative of. As long as you know who you are, everything else will be OK. No one else can intervene or interfere or affect you, because you control your destiny, you control your tone, you control everything in your life.

As far as I'm concerned, my life is just beginning. It's never too late to start over, so this is what I've been doing.

Growth is what we all need and what we all strive for because we want to get better and better and better each day.

It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling.

I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.

When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs in French.