Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

I feel thankful to God, first and foremost, allowing me to enjoy this 'smell the roses' kind of thing.

I'm still experimenting.

My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family.

Sometimes I'm very disappointed at some of the people in our family of communicators, whether it be a songwriter or a rapper that's always talking about negativity or a singer or a columnist or a network that basically gets off on just trying to create the negative.

You can't hear me? Read my lips!

I do believe in women. I really do.