I'm the queen of festivities, that's all I can say.

I'd rather be onstage with a pig - a duet with Jennifer Lopez and me just ain't going to happen.

You don't have to be doing vocal acrobatics or singing all over the scale to have soul.

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.

Especially since I stared studying acting, I feel like I'm always super-aware of my emotions and my feelings and what's going on with me at every moment.

I know I can be diva-ish sometimes, but I have to be in control. The nature of my life, the nature of what I do, is divadom, it really is.

I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.