It hurts a lot when you cannot really comprehend what a person is saying in a meeting, or you don't even understand what you're reading in your contract.

It's that first step-getting out the door-that's the toughest. If you can do that, you've already won.

I like to do interior design, I love to quilt, I love to see different colors together, and I love to match things up.

I started speaking about what I was dealing with through my music, and 4 million women responded and said, 'Us too, Mary.' And I didn't know that everyone was hurting like I was hurting. I had no idea.

I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.

I do consider myself part of black history.

I grew up watching MTV, when Journey was huge, when Pat Benatar had 'Love Is a Battlefield,' and my friends and I used to cut school to watch this woman in the video. We loved Pat Benatar.