I believed in Obama for social issues. I believe he brought our nation together and healed our racial divide. Martin Luther King's dream came true when he was elected. That's huge.

I had to go see the Glee concert with my daughter - oh my God, shoot me.

My ultimate joy and happiness is being a wife and mother.

The sweetness is in having success with something you truly believe in.

When you grow up in one town and your life revolves around it, you are very aware of any darkness on the edge of town. That's because it's scary and it's inviting.

I'm so close to Heaven, this Hell cannot be mine.

To be completely stripped bare of any image power or my hair. To step onstage and get the response that I got blew any problems I had about self-image out the door.