We are getting older, and we are getting wiser, and we are getting freer. And when you get the wisdom and the truth, then you get the freedom and you get power, and then look out. Look out.

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

This is the only naked man that will ever be in my bedroom.

I can be a rock star with a television show and still have a self-esteem problem. So it's nice to have your dad go, 'Hey Melissa, I'm proud of you - you're doing good.'

I definitely feel we're moving forward. There's a lot more understanding... there's less fear and we're working on there being less hatred.

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.

The subject and the reality of having children came at the height of my career.