I am used to being on tours with people who are fantastic performers and I respect them and I love their music. But the bottom line is they got the vision for what we are trying to do.

Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.

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

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

New Jersey is a great place to live. And we have given some of the best talent to the world, from Jack Nicholson, John Travolta, to Jerry Lewis to Bon Jovi to Frank Sinatra.

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.

When you're rapping, you do have to perform to a certain degree, but not every rapper is necessarily a gifted actor.