Don't call me an icon. I'm just a mother trying to help.

At the age of 19, you always think you are prepared for everything and you think you have the knowledge of what?s coming ahead.

Everywhere I go I smell fresh paint.

The people that I care about are the people out there on the street. I can identify with them.

I found myself being more and more involved with people who were rejected by society - with drug addicts, alcoholism, battered this, battered that - and I found an affinity there.

I desperately loved my husband and I wanted to share everything together, and I thought that we were a very good team.

I do things differently, because I don't go by a rule book, because I lead from the heart, not the head, and albeit that's got me into trouble in my work, I understand that.