Once I was a prisoner lost inside myself with the world surrounding me, wandering through the misery, but now I am free. Free to love, free to laugh, free to soar, free to shine, free to give.

There's an answer, if you reach into your soul, and the sorrow that you know will melt away.

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.

I don't think anyone knows as much about what's right for me as I do.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel... hopefully its not a freight train!

If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count.

Since having the babies, I realize that 90 percent of losing weight is my diet.