I think that for me personally, a lot of my choices have been to do with my own issues of not feeling safe as a child and feeling a sense of stability.

I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands.

To quote Frank Sinatra, "Regrets, I've had a few / But then again, too few to mention."

I work myself into the ground. But I think I'm a nice friend and a good person, and I try to do my work as best I can.

My father identified as a black man. No one asked him because he was clearly black. But people always ask me. If we were together, people would look at us in a really strange way. It sucked. As a little girl I had blond hair and they'd look at me, look at him, and be disgusted.

Stay triumphant, keep on living. Stay on your toes, get off the ropes. Don't let 'em ever count you out.

A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.