I like to keep some coloring tools around to draw vistas.

The more you push the budgets up, the more you make records cost $20, the more you make records last 4 and 5 minutes on the radio.

There was always music in our home. My mom and my dad loved music. I remember when we were kids we would have these great parties at the house with congas and bongos and African drums, and it was amazing. It wasn't until years later that I found out that they were actually Black Panther meetings.

The movie I've seen a million times is 'Steel Magnolias,' directed by Herbert Ross, starring Sally Field and Julia Roberts.

We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to... until they really bite us in the butt.

I feel strongly that women who look like me should feel great. So I am not changing.

We all have to show up and do our job regardless of our life circumstances or situations. We don't have to do it with an attitude or whatever but maybe we do that day. Everyone understands that life happens and we have to create a whole other life where our life doesn't even exist. You know, our real life doesn't exist, these characters exist. And that is our life. And that's who we are.