I totally want like 18 babies.

I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.

I'm as involved as I can be. Whenever I'm asked to do something, I always tend to show up.

I'm thinking wanting to succeed is something in my DNA; I'm not like 'I've got to succeed,' I just don't think about that... I see a silver lining in everything and I see a lesson in everything.

I lost relatives to AIDS, a couple of my closest cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high-school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.

I've hosted the Soul Train awards, the American Music Awards... and I had my own talk show. So if I can't host by now, what the hell can I do?

You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.