I enjoy just being me. I don't need to be Queen Latifah, the brand, 24 hours a day.

To step into acting was not that difficult a transition to make. What was difficult was the work and the practice that went into becoming good at it, because I hadn't had any training.

I'm a sucker for a man who cries. It just gets to me.

When I was growing up, there were so many musicals you could watch. I like the fantasy of musicals and I love music.

Don't you want to know what's real and what's not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it's almost like, what's real and what's not?

There are so many things I'd like to do. Like becoming a parent. To me that is the next natural progression in life.

To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it.