I was raised by a hard-working single mother, so my first role model was a woman. My only caretaker was a woman, and I have three sisters, so my community was girls. I have two girls, and my dog is a girl. My dead dog was a girl. I don't know. I guess I've always keyed in on that perspective.

Life isn't something you possess. It's something you take part in, and you witness.

You can do eight things. We got it down to eight for you.

It's hard to know where your thoughts come from, especially when you have a thirst for material because you need it professionally.

I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.

I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.

My kids and I figured out that there’s a third kind of person, and I don’t know what you call them, but it’s somebody who sees that the glass is always full because it’s half full with water and half full with nothing, so that’s the third kind of person. I don’t know what it is.