It's not necessarily what a family is typically supposed to look like. But it is what it is. It's about a connection and bond that everyone can identify with.

I am a strong woman with or without this other person, with or without this job, and with or without these tight pants.

I was baptized a Baptist, but I'm just Christian, as far as I'm concerned. I could go in any church, doesn't matter if it's Baptist, Protestant, Episcopal, or Catholic.

Those curveballs are always coming-eventually, you learn to hit some of them.

I feel anger and I feel understanding. It's a difficult position to be in.

I'm not the type that's going to sit and preach to people if they don't need it just because I've been around the block a few times.

I actually enjoy that I never really needed to be hanging out with every celebrity in Hollywood; I just go home and hang out with my cousins, my best friends. I'm not treated like royalty; they love me to death, but they don't treat me like royalty. So it's easy for me; they'll tell me the truth, whether it hurts or not. And I need that; I've always been given that.